Quotes About Connections

I'm going into politics and plan to run for governor of Arkansas, and I'm keeping track of everyone I meet," said Clinton.

wise words of Mark McCormack in his book What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: "Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

And the law of probability ensures that the more new people you know, the more opportunities will come your way and the more help you'll get at critical junctures in your career.

LinkedIn will immediately show you who you have in common.

Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

the book Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, my old friend Tony Tjan and his coauthors studied people they called "Luck Dominant," and found that 86 percent of them credited their success to "being open to new things and people.

Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group, if not three. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other's success to do things otherwise impossible.

One article creates visibility, which in turn puts you in front of other journalists, creating the possibility of more articles and visibility.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people who could help you make more of yourself.

Who you know determines who you are—how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.

Wherever you are in life right now, and whatever you know, is a result of the ideas, experiences, and people you have interacted with in your life

Your network is your destiny, a reality backed up by many studies in the newly emergent fields of social networking and social contagion theory. We are the people we interact with.

Today's most valuable currency is social capital, defined as the information, expertise, trust, and total value that exist in the relationships you have and social networks to which you belong.

SUCCESS IN LIFE = (THE PEOPLE YOU MEET) + (WHAT YOU CREATE TOGETHER).

Our lives are filled with these brief intersections, these unknowable trajectories that never travel in straight lines.

The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.

According to researcher Virginia McCullough, Marshall Riconosciuto also had associations to Nixon crony Pat Moriarty, and references to both appear in Casolaro's notes. McCullough noted that Moriarty helped arranged Nixon's first trip to China and was later connected to another conspiracy potentate, Bo Gritz. Michael Riconosciuto mentioned his father in point 14 of his March 1991 affidavit for the House Judiciary Committee.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Without planning, we are individuals with haphazard connections and effectiveness. We are a team when we plan and work in harmony.

He knew he wouldn't sleep. Couldn't. The things Larry had told him swirled around the dark ceiling, darting in and out of his consciousness. He hoped strands of what he knew would somehow miraculously connect and he'd sit bolt upright with an epiphany and suddenly know the connections as well as the answers. Didn't happen.

The idea that it's valuable to maintain vast numbers of weak-tie social connections is largely an invention of the past decade or so—the detritus of overexuberant network scientists spilling inappropriately into the social sphere.

skills, be they intellectual or physical, eventually reduce down to brain circuits.

In addition, the more unusual or creative your system, the better. This will reduce tedium, inject some novelty into the process, and lead to the establishment of stronger mental connections.

If you value new connections & exposure to interesting ideas, he might argue, why not adopt the habit of attending an interesting talk or event every month, & forcing yourself to chat with at least three people while there?