Keith Ferrazzi Quotes & Sayings

Life is about work. Work is about life. And both are about people. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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

Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs
each with our own unique brand. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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

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

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself. — Keith Ferrazzi

Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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, — Keith Ferrazzi

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

It's better to give before you receive. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. Take them to lunch. Read their newsletters. In fact, read everything you can. Online, there are hundreds of individuals distilling information, analyzing it, and making prognos-tications. These armchair analysts are the eyes and ears of innovation. Now get online and read, read, read. Subscribe to magazines, buy books, and talk to the smartest people you can find. Eventually, all this knowledge will build on itself, and you'll start making connections others aren't. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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 — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious. — Keith Ferrazzi

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first — Keith Ferrazzi

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

Samuel Beckett wrote, "Fail, fail again. Fail better. — Keith Ferrazzi

Stop driving yourself - and everyone else - crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

Until you become as willing to ask for help as you are to give it, however, you are only working half the equation. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

You have to envision yourself winning to win. — Keith Ferrazzi

You won't build relationships unless you let your guard down — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful. — Keith Ferrazzi

People do business with people they know and like — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

Learning is best achieved through relationships - having the right conversations with the right people in the right context - and collaborative action. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

Sticking to the people we know is a tempting behavior. But unlike some forms of dating. A networker isn't looking to achieve only a single successful union. Creating an enriching circle of trusted relationships requires one to be out there, in the mix, all the time. — Keith Ferrazzi

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses. — Keith Ferrazzi

Touching is a powerful act — Keith Ferrazzi

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

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

audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

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. — Keith Ferrazzi

The problem, as I see it, isn't what you're working on, it's whom you're working with.

You can't feel in love with your life if you hate your work; and more times than not, people don't love their work because they work with people they don't like. — Keith Ferrazzi

Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Keith Ferrazzi

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

What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about making a difference, not just making a living. — Keith Ferrazzi