Leveraging Relationships Quotes

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

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

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.

I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

People have this fantasy that it's all just an easy ride if you know someone important. Well, it's not. I've known lots of people in this business - and it hasn't really done anything for me.