Develop a reputation as a person who, rather than talking a good game, actually plays a good game.

Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.

Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.

How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

The most successful network marketers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person's needs ahead of their own.

When you sell on price, you are a commodity. When you sell on value, you are a resource.

When it comes to influence, TRUST is often the missing piece.

Play the Reverse gossip game. See how many nice things you can say behind someones back.

Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

The 8 key words that will move practically anyone to your side of the issue: 'If you can't do it, I'll definitely understand.'

The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

Before fighting for truth, find the truth.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

We meet. We always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance myself from you. It never matters. You always find me.

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.