Jay Samit Quotes

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

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

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

I'm out there talking to everyone. My days are filled with breakfast, lunches, dinner and drinks.

I love keeping a connection with everyone I've worked with.

For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

I keep in touch with a lot of people I work with.

Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

Parties in Washington are a natural extension of the working day.... Everybody uses everybody.

One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

Networking is working.

My main interest is in cultivating my company.

Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

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

It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.

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

I hear a lot of young people talking about the need to network. I think that is true, and I think that building a network makes sense. But I also think that there is another way to approach it, and that is to try to make friends. Just try to make a lot of friends.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

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

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.