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

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.

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

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

You have to envision yourself winning to win.

In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

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.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

I don't want to be the next Mark Spitz; I want to be the first Michael Phelps

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.