Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.

Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.

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

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

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