Quotes About Networking

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.

Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

L.A. feels like a really small town to me.

I want to work with Bayona again. I keep emailing my agent about it. Even the smallest role, I'll do it.

The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town.

There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.

Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

Years ago when I had my first dark match against Norman Smiley, Norman took me to the side and introduced me to Booker and we spent a few minutes talking and he gave me some advice and back then he was kind enough to give me his number and told me to give him a call if I ever needed any advice.

I've been able to work with so many people, so I love asking advice from as many as possible.

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

We don't get contacts, we don't find contacts, we don't have contacts; we make connections with real people.

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

The corollary to the Cave Man Principle is that if you want to predict the social interactions of humans in the future, simply imagine our social interactions 100,000 years ago and multiply by a billion. This means there will be a premium placed on gossip, social networking, and entertainment

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.

Relationships will get you far in this industry. It's about how you move and how you act. Just be yourself.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.

I can't go to a party and just smile at people and walk away. There are big actors, directors who come to a party and stay for not more than 20 minutes. They have a knack for making a quick exit but I have not been successful in doing that. So I try to avoid such gatherings.

I knock on lots of doors, but you don't reach everyone that way - Twitter is just one of many ways of keeping in touch.

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.