Career Networking Quotes

Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal.

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.

NXT is a land of opportunity.

Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I hang out with people I have worked with - most of my friends I've met because I've worked with them, to be honest.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

When you're up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. 'Hey, my wrestling isn't good yet, let me get it on-point and then I'll come back there,' or, 'I'm not going to fight that guy right now,' because whatever, when you're up-and-coming. But once you're already at the top of your game, you're in there, man. That's it.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

I never think career.

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."

You've got to build a career and a practice.

I want to put everything in my career.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.

I have never decided on how to plan my career moves.

[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.