Networking Pro Gifts

"...which do you think would help me more in my career...?"

'I thought I heard the champagne cork over there...'

'I recognize the face ... I just can't pin down the name.'

"I hear good things about you from your publicist."

"I had a great round today, I landed two new accounts."

'I hear you're a celebrity. Should I know you?'

"Finding work as an actor isn't easy. Once, I was so desperate, I staged my own death ??" and still lost the part."

'I do an awful lot of business on the golf course.'

'I want you to meet a Corporate Chieftan who's fall of himself.'

"Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I've been out of the office since I got fired."

"Are you new money, old money or other people's money?"

Rod was unimpressed with the party - Sure, he was surrounded by bikini-clad lovelies, there was free champagne and a 20-foot jelly, but much to his chagrin, there was a distinct lack of cheese and pineapple chunks.

Air traffic controller asks 'what's up?'

"'Mr. Evans,' she said to me with that adorable smile, 'I think you're the nicest boy in the entire old-boy network.'"

The Janitor at the Harvard University Alumni Reunion is one of the Gang.

"Be patient with Ed. You can skip his political harangue in 15 seconds and move right onto sports."

Dan tells me you're an architect. That is so cool! Thanks! Cloud architect, actually.

"Apparently I suck the air out of every room I enter, what do you do?"

"Nobody realized I was a man to watch until it was too late."

"And what do you do to maintain your cardiovascular fitness, Miss Holt?"

'Very impressive educational background...now let's discuss WHO you know.!

Networking

Do you want to win the game or my business?

"I was going to have my people call his people, but I’m pretty sure his people have Caller I.D."

"Yes, social media's a great way to express your opinions - shame you feel 'ignored and unappreciated by an aloof, faceless boss' - but that's because I haven't a clue who you are or what you do around here!"

"I don't think the guy with the business-card cannon has ever been to an actual networking event,"

"Remember, if I can't introduce you it's because I can't remember their name - so that's when you step in and introudce yourself so we can get them to say it, okay?" - Company Party Prep.

'I don't understand. You've wasted the whole interview going on and on about what you know... I think you'd better start telling me who you know.'

Network Extending from Buttonhole

'Remember, Henson; we're not here to hobnob - we're here to schmooze.'

"Thank God! Someone to network with!"

"Typical company, I'm the only woman!!"

"I'm being heavily recruited by several other companies."

I work for a not for profit business. Mind you, two years ago it was a 'for profit' business.

"Phil's an expert networker. One drink and he's on schmooze-control."