Keith Ferrazzi Quotes

SUCCESS IN LIFE = (THE PEOPLE YOU MEET) + (WHAT YOU CREATE TOGETHER).

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.

I learned that real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful. It was about working hard to give more than you get.

Over time, I came to see reaching out to people as a way to make a difference in people’s lives as well as a way to explore and learn and enrich my own; it became the conscious construction of my life’s path.

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.

It’s better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated.

the currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

They are the small segment of the population that will adopt a cool product early on and infect everyone else with the bug.

The strongest leaders are those who are lifelong students.”4

A brand is nothing less than everything everyone thinks of when they see or hear your name.

Clay Shirky summed it up in 2008, and he’s still right: “The problem isn’t information overload, it’s filter failure.” Our

Nothing infuriates reporters and editors more, I’m told, than to get a pitch from someone who clearly has no idea what their publication is about or who their audience is.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

As long as you’re going to think anyway, think big. — Donald Trump