40+ Best Networking Quotes: Exclusive Selection

When you learn how to network, you are always at the front of the line for new opportunities. Profoundly inspirational networking quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

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Famous Networking Quotes

Networking is not about just connecting people. It’s about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities.

Success isn’t how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. Michelle Obama

Networking means the act of exchanging information with people who can help you professionally. Michele Jenneke

Your network is your net worth. Porter Gale

All the time and effort put into networking can be all for naught if there is no follow through. The same goes for sales. And leadership. And well, everything.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. Steve Jobs

It’s great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that’s not what you’re there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people. Beth Ramsay

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting. Ivan Misner

Networking is by far the most important aspect of business school. The classroom is a distant second. Jay Devivo

Networking is working. Denise Morrison

Networking is a lot like nutrition and fitness: we know what to do, the hard part is making it a top priority. Herminia İbarra

All the time and effort put into networking can be all for naught if there is no follow-through. The same goes for sales. And leadership. And well, everything. Beth Ramsay

Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals. Seth Godin

The true value of networking doesn’t come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others. Simon Sinek

Everyone should build their network before they need it. Dave Delaney

A really important part of networking is actually about what you bring to the table not just what you want to get out of it. Contribution is a big part of networking success. Gina Romero

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity. Keith Ferrazzi

Networking is not about just connecting people. It’s about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities Michele Jennae

If you’re not networking, you’re not working. Denis Waitley

Build a relationship with people you do serious business with. One can escape a deal but not a relation easily. Sunita Biddu

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

Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come.  Diane Helbig

Pulling a good network together takes effort, sincerity and time. Alan Collins

The business that leaders are in today is the business of transforming awareness There is a deep longing for more meaning, for connections. Otto Scharmer

Networking is an investment in your business. It takes time and when done correctly can yield great results for years to come. Diane Helbig

Everyone you’ll ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye

The single greatest ‘people skill’ is a highly developed & authentic interest in the other person.

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal. Mark Cuban

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.

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

Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the give part. Bob Burg

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. Dale Carnegie

It’s all about people. It’s about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Mike Davidson

Networking is a lot like nutrition and fitness: we know what to do, the hard part is making it a top priority. Herminia Ibarra

Networking is a verb. You build a network by actively networking.

To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust. George Ross

Instead of better glasses, your network gives you better eyes. Ronald Burt

Ask not what your network can do for you. Ask what you can do for your network. Greg Bahlmann