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.

Good things come to those who initiate.

Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.

Small talk is the biggest talk we do.

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

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.