Quotes About Networking

During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

Sometimes all it takes to connect entrepreneurs to overseas buyers is to get them into the same room.

Is it any surprise that the current center of coffee culture, the city of Seattle, home to the Starbucks coffeehouse chain, is also where some of the world's largest software and Internet firms are based? Coffee's association with innovation, reason, and networking—plus a dash of revolutionary fervor—has a long pedigree.

Coffeehouses were centers of self-education, literary and philosophical speculation, commercial innovation, and, in some cases, political fermentation. But above all they were clearinghouses for news and gossip, linked by the circulation of customers, publications, and information from one establishment to the next. Collectively, Europe's coffeehouses functioned as the Internet of the Age of Reason.

Always good to have slept with at least one person on any committee on which one sits. It's the British way.

But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

You can have the greatest job skills in the world, but if no one knows you have them or can't find you to offer you a job, then those skills go to waste. Just

Among skilled workers, much value is placed on the ability to reinvent yourself, to align yourself with short-term corporate objectives, to be good at forgetting old skills and learning new ones, to be a networker and above all to live the dream of the firm you work for. These qualities, which would have attracted the word 'scab' in a Toronto print shop in 1890, are since the 1990s obligatory – if you want to stay in the core. For

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

There are only so many hours per day, even as we push back the frontiers of sleeplessness. There are only so many people with whom we can maintain serious connections

I'm Oracle, I know everybody.

On the security circuit in the Middle East, reputation is everything. If you don't know someone, they're probably not worth knowing.

the fastest way to get to people we don't already know is through contacts as far away as possible from our daily routine.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

There are lots of variables that come into play in the industry, like attending parties and dating actors. When you don't indulge in all this, you tend to get affected in some way.

It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact, the competition is fierce on the sales and marketing side. But on the technical side, we're actually very friendly to each other. It seems that everyone knows everyone else.

It's strange the way Instagram has become a really crazy sourcing opportunity for me. I never thought I'd be saying that, but you see these amazing vendors halfway across the world.

It's very important to me to have a female venture capitalist.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

I have made a living for myself from my networking by endorsing restaurants, resorts, artists, films, assorted venture capital deals, because some people say I have good taste and know how to live.

Nortel—another troubled networking company that suffered operating problems as a result of botched mergers.

You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.