Quotes from Keith Ferrazzi

A goal is a dream with a deadline." That marvelous definition drives home a very important point. Before you start writing down your goals, you'd better know what your dream is. Otherwise, you might find yourself headed for a destination you never wanted to get to in the first place.

Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —Margaret Wheatley

When management guru Peter Drucker was asked for one thing that would make a person better in business, he responded, "Learn to play the violin." Different

connecting—sharing my knowledge and resources, time and energy, friends and associates, and empathy and compassion in a continual effort to provide value to others, while coincidentally increasing my own.

there is genius, even kindness, in being bold.

A successful brand, then, is the promise and guarantee of a mind-shattering experience each and every time.

Todos fracasamos alguna vez. No se trata de elegir entre el fracaso y el éxito; sino de escoger el riesgo y aspirar a la grandeza, o no tomar ningún riesgo y asegurarnos la mediocridad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson dijo una vez: «Todo hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún aspecto. En ese aspecto, aprendo de él.»

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

Everyone sees what you appear to be," observed Machiavelli, "few really know what you are.

The idea that you can and should hack serendipity is a central theme of the book The Power of Pull, by John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison.

well over 50 percent of Americans are unhappy at work. Many of these people are doing well, but they are doing well at something they don't enjoy.

If 80 percent of success is, as Woody Allen once said, just showing up, then 80 percent of building and maintaining relationships is just staying in touch.

But in the words of Joichi Ito, director of MIT's media lab, "If you plan your whole life, by definition you can't get lucky. So you have to leave that little slot open.

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.

As William James pointed out, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

the book Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, my old friend Tony Tjan and his coauthors studied people they called "Luck Dominant," and found that 86 percent of them credited their success to "being open to new things and people.

The future is dynamic and not fully in your control. Celebrate that fact instead of fighting it, and life gets a lot more interesting. Keep your eyes open, be humble and generous, and save time and attention for the spontaneous, the quirky, and the left field.

Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group, if not three. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other's success to do things otherwise impossible.

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

What you see shapes how you change ... We tell ourselves a story of what our job is, what our company does, who the people we work with are - and that story becomes our reality. ... What you see shapes how you change

It's better to give before you receive.

Scrupulously update your lists so that you're constantly focused on the people who are most important to you, and so that you are able to filter both outbound and inbound messages. You want to be getting everything your "1"s are putting out into their newstreams, daily; "2"s you may want to check in on only once a week or month; "3"s once a month or quarterly. Build these "tours" into your work schedule.

Be the CEO of your own life. Raise hell... I went our of my way to take on projects no one wanted and initiated projects no one has thought of doing... I'd make the effort to create the job that I thought would make me happy