Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

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

At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

People do business with people they know and like

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.

The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.

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.