Ferrazzi Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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,

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

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#9. When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

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#10. 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.

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

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

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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

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

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#16. You can't get there alone. In fact, you can't get very far at all.

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#17. To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

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#18. Who you know determines who you are - how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. The problem, as I see it, isn't what you're working on, it's whom you're working with.

You can't feel in love with your life if you hate your work; and more times than not, people don't love their work because they work with people they don't like.

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#22. Touching is a powerful act

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

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

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#33. 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.

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#34. In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

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#35. I'll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity.

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

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

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

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. It's better to give before you receive.

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#42. 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.

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#43. The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

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

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#45. In short, caring is sharing, so ditch your milquetoast posts and say something that matters.

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

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#47. People do business with people they know and like

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

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#49. 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.

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#50. Lifetime corporate employment is dead; we're all free agents now, managing our own careers across multiple jobs and companies. And because today's primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields.

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#51. 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.

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#52. You have to envision yourself winning to win.

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#53. Life is about work. Work is about life. And both are about people.

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#54. 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.

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#55. 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

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#56. You won't build relationships unless you let your guard down

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#57. Start finding future clients before you have anything to sell them. Get to know these people as friends, not potential customers.

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#58. What has become clear is that we're not just connected to others. We are the very product of the people and networks to which we are connected.

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#59. 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.

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

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#61. Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

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

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