Top 15 Keith Ferrazzi Quotes

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful.

Identify the people in your industries who always seem to be out in front, and use all the relationship skills you've acquired to connect with them. Take them to lunch. Read their newsletters. In fact, read everything you can. Online, there are hundreds of individuals distilling information, analyzing it, and making prognos-tications. These armchair analysts are the eyes and ears of innovation. Now get online and read, read, read. Subscribe to magazines, buy books, and talk to the smartest people you can find. Eventually, all this knowledge will build on itself, and you'll start making connections others aren't.

Poverty, I realized, wasn’t only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people who could help you make more of yourself.

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. — MARGARET WHEATLEY

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’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business — and life — skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers — in every imaginable field — work the same

The only way to get people to do anything is to recognize their importance and thereby make them feel important. Every person's deepest lifelong desire is to be significant and to be recognized.

Who you know determines who you are — how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.

Wherever you are in life right now, and whatever you know, is a result of the ideas, experiences, and people you have interacted with in your life,

There is only one place to find real peace, real harmony. That place is within,

Friendship is created out of the quality of time spent between two people, not the quantity.

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.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

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