Rick Barry Quotes

It's who you know and who can help you.

I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

In my industry who you know is very important.

It's not who you know, it's who you don't know.

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

We had less qualified trumping more qualified people just because of their political connections.

I don't think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can't get anything until you do know the right people.

Even after choreographing some big numbers, I didn't qualify as the top choreographer. You need to have godfathers and big people to support you for others to take you seriously.

In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know.

I started my career in Hollywood, where I learned the rumors were true - having success there really was dictated by how who you knew, not what you knew. I grew frustrated by the fact that careers could be made and broken by relationships alone.

The world doesn't reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.

The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.

Well, I don't believe in patronage.

I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty. High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

It's very difficult in France to get access to castings when you don't have any relationships.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

Did any agents ever put Diane Ladd up for some of the great parts, even though she always got great reviews? No! But do they put up the girlfriend of the studio executive who's gonna do them a favor later? You betcha.