Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Although I've got lots of pals in showbiz, I haven't got that many close friends.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

I keep a list of everyone I've ever met.

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

I knew David Benioff a bit socially. I knew his wife, Amanda Peet. He's a smart guy, so I always sought him out at dinner parties.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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.

Better have friends in the market-place than money in your coffer.

There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.

Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

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.

I do reach out to lads that I know who are my age: people like Charlie Plummer or Timothee Chalamet.

I have a lot of friends.

In Mumbai, I don't know many people. I only know colleagues.

I would tell my 23-year-old self to be friends with more comics.

People are not just going to bars and meeting people; they're connecting through social media.

With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life.

Get out there and meet people, and that will lead to meeting other people. Look around; see if there's anyone hiding in plain sight. There may be friends that become more than friends.

Most of the people that I still talk to and hang out with, to them, I'm just Ken.

I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I'm friends with one person, I don't assume I'm friends with his friends.

When you say yes to the invite of someone new, you're also saying yes to their network. And their network contains people you may be attracted to.