Quotes About Connections

I wasn't sure how it would unfold once I got to the NBA, but I knew if I got to the NBA, I could then have the platform and have the resources and the connections and the people around me that had more connections and more resources to help me really impact a lot of people's lives.

I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable.

Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.

An entrepreneur with strong network makes money even when he is asleep.

Make friends on your way up since you might need them on your way down.

Love everyone but chose your friends with caution.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.

I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

That's been one of the best things about doing 'Game of Thrones.' My social circle in London has more or less doubled just by doing it because nearly everyone is based in London. And I hadn't long moved to London before doing it, so it's been really great in terms of meeting people to hang out with while I'm there.