By not shoving your business card onto someone, you already stand out. Also, you want to win the mover over with what you have to say. Then he'll offer his card to you, or better yet, simply present himself. Now assume you have collected your share of business cards, beamed enough people. Everyone else sees that you like to help others out.
Few people have the capacity to make things happen.
Even fewer can walk into a room, sit down with leaders from various companies, and present a vision and action plan to make something happen. CEO Terry Semel was instrumental in the Viacom deal last year, and it's this ability to bring people and ideas together, despite egos, that will make you rise to the top quickly. If you can pitch to big cheeses and interest them in what you have to offer, then they'll want you by their side. This is networking. Shoving your card in their faces when they already get two hundred per day is not.