networking quotes

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

I’m not a natural joiner.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

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