Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

Sales fixes everything.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.