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.

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.

Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

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

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

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

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