Best Keith Ferrazzi Quotes

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

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

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.

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

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

Think of the blue flame as a convergence of mission and passion founded on a realistic self-assessment of your abilities.

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

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

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.

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.

Real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful.

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.

People do business with people they know and like.

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.

Identify the people in your industries who always seem to be out in front, and use all the relationship skills you've acquired to connect with them.

Connecting is a constant process of giving and receiving—of asking for and offering help.

Each of us is now a brand. Gone are the days where your value as an employee was linked to your loyalty and seniority. Companies use branding to develop strong, enduring relationships with customers. In today's fluid economy, you must do the same with your network.

Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

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

Translate goals into practice + repetition = success!

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.

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

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