"If you need to meet people, the first thing to do is make sure you can be where they are." Or, you can work to put the right people where you need them to be.

"If you need to meet people, the first thing to do is make sure you can be where they are." Or, you can work to put the right people where you need them to be. I recall an interview, from long ago, with Peter Sellers, the actor who played Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series. I don't remember the exact words, but he said something to the effect that when he needed a job, he didn't go about finding one in the usual manner. Instead, he would manipulate events such that an opportunity would spring into existence, one which would be made just for him. EDIT: I note that this is my first HN comment of the new year. I should take this as a sign, and maybe try to be more like Peter Sellers, at least in regard to what I said above. EDIT: I also note that he has a website, even though he's been dead for more than three decades. http://PeterSellers.com http://PeterSellers.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers EDIT: "I feel ghostly unreal until I become someone else again on the screen." This quote, from his website, makes me wonder if that's one of the things which is at the root of an entrepreneur, because it's almost as if many of the people who create startups do it partly for the purpose of becoming someone or something else, as an actor would in a new role, especially if, like Peter Sellers, they tailor the role to themselves, rather than stepping into one which is prêt-à-porter.