Don't bank money, bank people

Wonderful words of wisdom from Om Malik in relation to entrepreneurship and doing the things you love (the money will follow) -

"My grandfather, long departed, used to say, son don’t bank money, bank people. If you do that, you are going to be much better off."

That beautiful turn of phrase echoes what I was saying yesterday in relation to blogging - it's for networking, not journalism (for me at least). I've got AdSense in the sidebar to pay the TypePad bills but I'm not banking money, I'm banking people.

Comments

[Ken McGuire]

People are the currency of the now and future.... more often than not more valuable than any price.

[John]

I've just written a piece for Business & Finance magazine which touches on this subject.

And I shortly hope to have a team of 5 people including myself for my 4Basra project - all thanks to the blog and one ad for volunteers.

[Ina]

Agreed.

There should be more blogger meetups so people can meet face to face.