Linus Torvalds Quotes

In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.

You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

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

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

When you build your own brand, people will still return your phone calls regardless of the call letters or where you actually work, because they now know you and they trust you in what you have to say and what you're doing. That, to me, is the most important aspect when it comes to building your brand.

One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.

Both say to the other "I don't trust you and will not take any chances, but I ask you to trust me and take the chances which that involves.

When people believe they need each other, they cooperate.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.

I really like working with people again and again, and I don't know why everyone doesn't do it. Because you already know them, and you know how good they are.

In my industry who you know is very important.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

None of us can buy goodwill; we must earn it.

When your friends have done right by you, you do right by them.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend.

A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals.