Narciso Rodriguez Quotes

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

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

It's really about making opportunities for yourself and connecting with people on a more-than-normal level. That opens doors. You never know if the caterer's brother is someone. You don't know who someone is having dinner with that night. So being a nice person and touching people creates opportunity.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

The great thing about being in this business is that you meet people, and I met Sally Struthers.

Baseball is all about relationships, and in some ways, what know you and who knows you.

It's nature that you're going to have relationships in your life, and sometimes it's with the people you work with.

I make it a priority to keep in touch with people with whom I've worked in the past. And I'm fortunate, because I've worked with some terrific folks.

In my industry who you know is very important.

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

You need to make relationships to help you.

I meet with people in the industry on an ongoing basis.

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

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

I have made really some significant deals because I play golf.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

You have to realise that everyone that you are working with is important. It doesn't matter where you are starting from; you are always going to run back into those people, and they are going to talk, and that's going to be the base of whether you get good opportunities or not.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

I have been with some great organizations, crossed paths with special people, and made numerous lasting relationships.