Skepta Quotes

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

I always love meeting other promoters.

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.

I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.

I like to introduce people to each other, especially in the hip-hop community.

I love to get out and meet people.

Once you choose to enter a WeWork, you choose to be part of something more 'we' than 'me.' People start coming together. They'll see each other in the elevator; they talk in the stairways. There's a thousand other things they do.

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.

It’s not about having a Silicon Valley attitude—it’s about having an entrepreneurial attitude. It’s about partnering with other organizations in and around your area. It’s about thinking big with entrepreneurs that sit next to you in your coworking space. It’s about collaborating with tech gurus, social media wizards and community leaders at cool business events. It’s the people that make a community an entrepreneurial one—not the location—and it’s up to you to contribute.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win something, I'm the only one of my ethnicity to get it, but this time I met all these Latinos, and I was so excited. I'd meet someone and I'd go, [...] "Can you come to San Antonio?" And they'd go, "Oh yeah." [...] And suddenly I had twelve people that said they would come. And I didn't know how it was going to be. And that's how the Macarturos became a reality, where these very generous geniuses come to San Antonio and work together.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

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

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?

What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.