Sallie Krawcheck Quotes

The ability to network successfully can be one of the greatest assets in business. It allows some people to find incredible opportunities, while others just watch from the sidelines.

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

I was never much of a networker.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

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.

The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the world to change their own economic curve by the strength of their alliances and connections with other people.

Networking is working.

There's a lot of 'who you know' in this business, and I don't think I skipped a step on the journey.

I realized that I'm increasingly in a position where I know a network of people, and I'm able to connect more or less anyone.

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence.

Networking, of course, is great, but the best way to network is to do work.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.

Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.

I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.

The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

I keep in touch with a lot of people I work with.

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.