Ultimate influence is the ability to get the results you want from others while helping them feel genuinely good about themselves.

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.'

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

Let things taste of what they are.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

I've got two wonderful children - and two out of five isn't too bad.

If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs.

I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!

I always work with text orally in the writing process, saying passages aloud to measure flow.