Quotes About Networking

#1. Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.

Morag Barrett

#2. I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?"

Lewis Black

#3. Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

Danah Boyd

#4. Knowledge is a commodity to be shared. For knowledge to pay dividends, it should not remain the monopoly of the selected few.

Moutasem Algharati

#5. With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Daniel Ek

#6. The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.

Elena D. Calin

#7. Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

Nicola Formichetti

#8. Younger Arabs are much less satisfied with education in the region than their elders, and are more comfortable networking and communicating via digital means.

Joe Saddi

#9. Networking isn't synonymous with partying. If you're doing it right, partying seems libraryesque in comparison.

Jarod Kintz

#10. Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

Chris Cain

#11. These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that's why there are so few good ones anymore.

Lauren Carr

#12. Good team and network promotes amazing results.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#14. In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

Vint Cerf

#15. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.

Andy Borowitz

#17. If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#18. You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don't think hellions are much into social networking.

Rachel Vincent

#19. It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Mark Kostabi

#20. The precondition of success and entry to the top politics is primarily one's will - that is, making one's own decisions, because it means having to leave your home or move your family, quit social networking and build new contacts, [since] central governments are seated in capitals.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#21. A COnNeCtworker is a networker that Considers Others' Needs Continually.

Michele Jennae

#22. Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.

Kirk Hammett

#23. Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

Evgeny Morozov

#24. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

#25. Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.

Alan G. Robinson

#26. Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.

Ryan Lilly

#27. In the name of "force protection," the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.

Eric Greitens

#28. Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.

Adele Scheele

#29. To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#30. I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create music is a progression of what electronic music does anyway - it connects people.

Paul Van Dyk

#31. Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally.

Michele Jennae

#32. I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

Scottie Thompson

#33. Googling is not spying. It's social networking.

Sarah

#34. Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

Douglas Leone

#36. The only thing worse than a social networking junkie who breaks out in a cold sweat if she hasn't updated her page in the past ten seconds is the person (usually it's a guy) who proudly refuses to join Facebook. You know, that same d-bag who held out on getting a cell phone until, like, 2002.

Andrea Lavinthal

#37. There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Idris Elba

#38. The social networking sites are such good way to keep in touch with your fans, it's quick and simple and it keeps your fans interested in what you're doing.

Melanie Fiona

#39. I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.

Trent Reznor

#40. I love networking. But I learned to love it

Jamal Igle

#41. The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.

Simon Sinek

#42. Your LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.

Melanie Pinola

#43. Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Ivan Misner

#44. Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you're standing in a crowded room?

Jarod Kintz

#45. I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.

Stephanie Perkins

#46. The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

Keith Ferrazzi

#47. Don't wait until you desperately need a social network to begin developing one.

Frank Sonnenberg

#48. Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

Tyler Wagner

#49. Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

Heidi

#50. It's the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically

Meg Jay

#51. If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.

Chris DeWolfe

#52. I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.

Ryan Lilly

#53. It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

A.R. Rahman

#54. Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

Natalie Portman

#55. Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame ... I'm all about mystery.

Stevie Nicks

#56. Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.

Michele Jennae

#57. It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#58. Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous.

Aysha Taryam

#59. Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#60. One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Reid Hoffman

#61. What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Douglas Rushkoff

#62. It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

Dan Simmons

#63. Shepley threw a french fry at his cousin. "Get your lips outta my girl's ear, Trav!" "Networking! I'm networking!

Jamie McGuire

#64. People Bond when they are having fun

Itzik Amiel

#65. I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.

Steve Krug

#66. Love is an attachment which develops through human interaction.

Auliq Ice

#67. With or without realizing it, every successful person has created behaviors - systems for greeting people, networking, and making telephone calls to aid them in their pursuits. By observing the traits of successful people, you can create your own system for success.

Ryan Blair

#68. Not everyone will like what you have to say. Not everyone will like what you do. Social networking is a garbage pile waiting for rats to feed. Pointless nothings of your everyday lives. Still the fumes rise.

Jerica Barsht

#69. Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.

Diane Helbig

#70. Networking is not a part-time or occasional exercise. Everywhere we go, we haven an opportunity to network with others.

Timothy M. Houston

#71. One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

Tim Berners-Lee

#72. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it's also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how you appear in search results

Melanie Pinola

#73. I don't buy or sell relationships, so let's talk business.

Sukant Ratnakar

#74. Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches.

Susan Cain

#75. Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

Robert A. Schuller

#76. On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a nonsentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.

Matt Haig

#77. Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

Erik Qualman

#78. When you decide to meet - in person - someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#79. New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.

Kevin Mitnick

#80. With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.

Robert Powell

#81. Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

David Sze

#82. I'm with you, networking is miserable. Whenever I find myself at a dinner party where people are networking I immediately focus on the dog, and if the host doesn't have one, I focus on persuading them to get a dog.

Jon Acuff

#83. It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

Mike Davidson

#84. I think that it will be the mobile technologies, both from the enterprise and the consumer side, where super unicorns will come from. I still believe that social networking in combination with mobile will create opportunities for super unicorns.

David Sze

#85. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#86. 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.

Keith Ferrazzi

#87. I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

Cassandra Clare

#88. Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

Perry Brass

#89. Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

Sallie Krawcheck

#90. Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another's movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.

Sinclair Lewis

#91. Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#92. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#93. Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#94. Wikis and social networking are just tools.

Jimmy Wales

#95. I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#96. Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

Susan RoAne

#97. Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.

Seth Godin

#98. People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'.

Tom Cox

#99. This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Bill Gates

#100. All media work us over completely.

Marshall McLuhan