Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.
Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
[as they drive by an abandoned, half-destroyed apartment building] Jonathan: What is it? Alex: Soviets. Jonathan: What happened? Alex: [pause] Independence.
Jeffrey Wigand: I find chemistry to be magical. I find it an adventure, an exploration into the physical building blocks of our universe.
Nurse #1: Can you build a house in four months? George: I can die trying.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: We will build those underground fortifications. And fight till the end.
Benny: Oh, shit. We missed a girl, I'm trying to find the fucking super in this goddamn building.
Avner's Mother: [on building the state of Israel] We had to take it, because no one would ever give it to us.
Morpheus: Free your mind. [Morpheus jumps from one building to another a long distance away] Neo: Whoa.
Police Chief Aiello: Find my son, or I'll burn down this building!
Dianne: Daffs is always taking me to see these listed buildings, and I'm always dragging him to the theatre.
We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.
I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
