David Fahrenthold Quotes

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

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.

I totally lucked out by meeting a lot of amazing people. I guess it stems from going to shows and being confident enough to meet people and be able to talk to them like a normal person rather than have my head down all the time.

I think that it is important to mingle with your peers and get to know the people that you coming up with because everything that we're doing is history.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

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

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

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

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.