Christopher Timothy Quotes

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

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.

Networking, of course, is great, but the best way to network is to do work.

For almost the first year of The Muse's life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I don't necessarily think that's the right path for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn't come into startups with any network.

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

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

Networking is working.

The ability to network successfully can be one of the greatest assets in business. It allows some people to find incredible opportunities, while others just watch from the sidelines.

I realized that I'm increasingly in a position where I know a network of people, and I'm able to connect more or less anyone.

Often, the best jobs come out of just meeting people and letting one thing lead to another.

What's your routine after attending a networking event or meal? If your answer is, 'I go home,' you're probably going to miss out on opportunities.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.

Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

The time to build a network is always before you need one.

One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

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.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

Networking doesn't have to be all about talking shop over appetizers and bad chardonnay - do it in a way that works for you.