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.

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not.

What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about making a difference, not just making a living.

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

Charm is simply a matter of being yourself. Your uniqueness is your power.

His statement flew in the face of everything I knew. He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that could only be cut into so many pieces. Take a piece away, and there was that much less for him. I knew, however, that relationships are more like muscles - the more you work them, the stronger they become.

The Web is no longer just about the present-that crazy driver or this delicious meal. As we share messages, photos and updates, we're building a data trail about our lives and histories online.We can now tell stories not just about what is happening today, but where we've been, what we've shared, and what might happen in the future.

Be sincere - the surest was to become special in other's eyes is to make them feel special

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.

by giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone.

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs
each with our own unique brand.

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

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

Learning is best achieved through relationships - having the right conversations with the right people in the right context - and collaborative action.

Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Sticking to the people we know is a tempting behavior. But unlike some forms of dating. A networker isn't looking to achieve only a single successful union. Creating an enriching circle of trusted relationships requires one to be out there, in the mix, all the time.

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.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

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

Flirting is the promise of sex with no guarantee. A successful brand, then, is the promise and guarantee of a mind shattering experience each and every time.

The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt.

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.

We all have our own loves, insecurities, strengths, weaknesses, and unique capabilities. And we have to take those into account in figuring out where our talents and desires intersect. That intersection is what I call your "blue flame" -- where passion and ability come together. When that blue flame is ignited within a person, it is a powerful force in getting you where you want to be.

Samuel Beckett wrote, "Fail, fail again. Fail better.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

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.

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

Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help others find their own way in their lives. The relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.

It's better to give before you receive.

You have to envision yourself winning to win.

Stop driving yourself - and everyone else - crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful.

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do.

Match your goals with the people who can make them happen and start building the relationships

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination.

The best way to become good at small talk is not to talk small at all.

audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.

Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.

I remind myself how people with a low propensity for success whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

Until you become as willing to ask for help as you are to give it, however, you are only working half the equation.