Lori Greiner Quotes

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.

It's really about making opportunities for yourself and connecting with people on a more-than-normal level. That opens doors. You never know if the caterer's brother is someone. You don't know who someone is having dinner with that night. So being a nice person and touching people creates opportunity.

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.

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

As soon as I came to L.A., things immediately shifted for me. I was now actually here with the people who were making the decisions; I wasn't out in New York sending in tapes to L.A.

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.

There's a lot of 'who you know' in this business, and I don't think I skipped a step on the journey.

The biggest thing I learned at Wisconsin was, it's all who you work for, not where you work or what level.

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

I was never much of a networker.

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.

If there's an opportunity open that leads to an even bigger opportunity, you're going to take it.

Ask people who have the job you want how they got it.

Having the opportunity to work with someone like Beyonce is definitely going to hopefully open a few doors.

The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players.

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

The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.