Skip to content

Business Quote by danah boyd

“Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.” quote by danah boyd — Download Open image

“Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Business Business Networking Cases Colleagues Competitors Connected Done Gasoline Grease Hyper Ifs Machines Networking Personal business Social Social network

More by danah boyd

“Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the…

Image

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences.

Image

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which…

Image

Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

Image

“Just because teens can and do manipulate social media to attract attention and increase visibility does not mean that they are equally experienced at doing so or that they automatically have the skills to navigate what unfolds. It simply means that teens are generally more comfortable with—and tend to be less skeptical of—social media than adults. They don’t try to…

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,

Image

The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.

Image

“Teen "addiction" to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality…

Image

Business culture operates differently in different cities around the world. But I don't think it's possible to design one system that incorporates all social…

Image

Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.

Image

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Image

LinkedIn is very good for browsing relationships and hooking into your contacts' networks. It re-connected me with high-level execs I hadn't talked to for…

Image

Explore all 23 danah boyd quotes

More Business quotes

Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't…

Image

You can laugh at me, but I understand show business.

Image

“Start a business, not a startup”

Image

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

Image

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's…

Image

Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.

Image

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I…

Image

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

Image

“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just…

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then…

Image

“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

Image

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

Bertrand Russell

Image

Browse all 38,995 Business quotes