Quotes from Keith Ferrazzi

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

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.

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

There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.

Living a connected life leads one to take a different view. 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.

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. —the Dalai Lama

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.

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

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.

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

People do business with people they know and like

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

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

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