The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.

Small talk is the biggest talk we do.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!

Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.

It's not what you know or who you know, but who knows you.

Good things come to those who initiate.