I’ll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity.
Match your goals with the people who can make them happen and start building the relationships.
Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.
Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.
You can’t get there alone. In fact, you can’t get very far at all.
Our careers aren’t paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We’re free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs – each with our own unique brand.
Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they’re going to fail. We all do, you know, so let’s get that out of the way. The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.
The idea isn’t to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.
At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.
Bottom Line: It’s better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.
Who you know determines who you are – how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.
Friendship is created out of the quality of time spent between two people, not the quantity.
Your network is your destiny, a reality backed up by many studies in the newly emergent fields of social networking and social contagion theory. We are the people we interact with.
Be sincere – the surest was to become special in other’s eyes is to make them feel special.
Today’s most valuable currency is social capital, defined as the information, expertise, trust, and total value that exist in the relationships you have and social networks to which you belong.
The best way to become good at small talk is not to talk small at all.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.” That.
Creativity begets more creativity, money begets more money, knowledge begets more knowledge, more friends beget more friends, success begets even more success. Most important, giving begets giving.
Samuel Beckett wrote, “Fail, fail again. Fail better.