Pete Cashmore Quotes

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

Influence is the new power - if you have influence, you can create a brand.

I think YouTube has been super instrumental in our success as well, because I think there's something really important about seeing and hearing what we're doing.

Ever since I've been on Twitter, my number of followers has kept going up and up.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!

In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

My greatest value derived from the fact that I had access to almost everybody.

It's weird: when I first got on Twitter, I had a couple hundred, then thousand, followers. Now I have over 53,000.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

I don't think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can't get anything until you do know the right people.

The more content you share, the more opportunity people have to see it and engage with it.

In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know.

With modeling, social media is such a humungous part of it now. You get jobs because of the amount of followers you have.

It is about meeting the right people at the right time that makes you go where you do. And I know that in our industry, everyone works hard but not everyone gets recognition.

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

Barbara was actually Jeff Foxworthy's interior designer when we first met. So, not only was Jeff responsible for my success in my career, he also introduced me to the woman who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, which, I think, makes us even.

General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.

If you want to catch a cold, hang out with sick people. If you want to lose, associate with losers. But if you want to become successful, go out of your way to associate with successful people.

It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.