Sourav Ganguly Quotes

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

I always look at auditions as not even getting the job as much as I'm just trying to connect with this casting director so they remember me for next time.

I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.

Any board executive can forget just how many people helped them get where they are. Those women who have got to the top need actively to ensure there is a pipeline of younger women, whether by networking or mentoring, who in turn are encouraging those below them.

The best thing about going to a tech conference is that you can tell everyone you're going to a tech conference. But while you're there, it's important you make a smart impression so people will remember you, or at least wait a few days before throwing away your business card.

I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."

I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people - with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don't forget me.

I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits.

Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.

It was like a frat house for film geeks, the Pad O' Guys. That's what being at UCLA afforded me. So when one of us had some success - in this case, my pal Fred Dekker - he would reach down the ladder and help me up a rung, give my work to his agent to pass around to see if anyone liked it.

So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and mark off the ones I've already met over the years. The few remaining I asked my agent and manager, "See if you can set up some meetings while I'm here."

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

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

A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.

'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.'

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

The important question is, how many hands have I shaked?

You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'

The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.