Quotes from Keith Ferrazzi

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

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.

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

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

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

Translate goals into practice + repetition = success!

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.

Why go to all the trouble of meeting new people if you're not going to work on making them a part of your life?

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.

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

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

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

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.

You've got to create a community of colleagues and friends before you need it. Others around you are far more likely to

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

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter

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.

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.

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.

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

Touching is a powerful act

Uncertainty is where new value is created. Everything you want in life is on the other side of all your excuses for not trying.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert H. Schuller

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.