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You’re becoming a theory-slinging, expert-quoting, knowledge-throwing lovecat, and that’s what makes you stand out from the pack, and that’s why others keep calling on you.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
Lauren M Taylor • Community is the New Moat
Be constant. Stay focused. It’s as though every time you touch people in business, you are running for president of their heart, and you’ve got to keep your campaign promises.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

Note: Match people against their social velocity. Some people are extroverted, some introverted. The introverts do better with other introverts in your network. And less will mean more to them in terms of how many people you introduce them to. These people may feel overwhelmed if they have too many contacts; they have learned over the years how to
... See moreGene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
As chief of staff, I reviewed thousands of requests for Reid’s time/attention/money. It was stunning how few requesters actually offered to help him on something. Amusingly, many requests were framed as if the asking party were doing Reid a favor by giving him the opportunity to... See more
Ben Casnocha • 10,000 Hours With Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
The Ideal Client Tracker I generally like working with two categories of business owners. Businesses generating over 1 million in sales. Extraordinary individuals who are in transition.
Ajit Nawalkha • The Book of Coaching: For Extraordinary Coaches
you enjoy warm, compassionate relationships with your bizmates, you will be given a larger margin of error during those times when you are less than perfect—and all of us come up short at some point. Not that you should take undue advantage of this latitude.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
When you represent knowledge, opportunity, selflessness, and intimacy, you are not just a service provider or a product. You are fun, you are interesting, you are valuable; you take people places they have never been before, you show them books they have never heard of, you introduce them to people they never dreamed they would meet—in short, you a
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