Quotes from Keith Ferrazzi

They are the small segment of the population that will adopt a cool product early on and infect everyone else with the bug.

They are also the celebrities and experts whose word is gospel. It's imperative that you identify those people and get your

As noted author and speaker Rabbi Harold Kushner once wisely wrote, "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, so the world will at least be a little bit different for our having passed through it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Creativity begets more creativity, money begets more money, knowledge begets more knowledge, more friends beget more friends, success begets even more success. Most important, giving begets giving.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best in the world, as long as you know that doing so also means wanting to be the best for the world.