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

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

Nobody is going to buy from you because you have quota to meet. They are going to buy from you because they see the value in doing so.

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

Giving is not a strategy. It's a way of life.

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.

Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back.