Go looking for conflict, and you'll find it. Go looking for people to take advantage of you, and they generally will. See the world as a dog-eat-dog place, and you'll always find a bigger dog looking at you as if you're his next meal. Go looking for the best in people, and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy, and good will you'll find. Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

Great influencers attract others.

Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

Develop a reputation as a person who, rather than talking a good game, actually plays a good game.

How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.