“The way of the world is meeting people through other people.”
— Robert Kerrigan

“~ It’s not what you know but who you know that makes the difference.”
— Anonymous

“More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.”
— Peter Drucker

“I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships… The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them.”
— Bob Burg, Endless Referrals

“The successful networkers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person’s needs ahead of their own.”
— Bob Burg

“Position yourself as a center of influence – the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you’ll soon become what you project.”
— Bob Burg

“Networking with integrity creates a greater willingness of all parties to be part of a human conduit to serve as energy and resource to one another. Sometimes you will give more than you receive and sometimes you will get back more than you give. It’s not about keeping score.”
— Chris London, MANHATTAN SOCIETY: The Art and Spirituality of Networking