Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

by Keith Ferrazzi

It’s astonishing how much more you can learn about someone when you are both doing something you enjoy.

When you meet people at your dinner party or event, don’t simply introduce yourself; introduce the folks you meet to other people. If your new acquaintances don’t quickly take up the conversation, offer a fact about one guest to another.

Johari Window is a model, invented by two American psychologists, that provides insight into how much people reveal of themselves.

All successful people are planners. They think on paper. Failing to plan, as they say, is planning to fail.

If you want to burst through someone’s invisible bubble and grab their attention, you need to create content that gets shared, and preferably reshared, and then shared some more.

Tell me why I should write about you in ten seconds or less. If it takes more than ten seconds to pitch your content, a television producer will assume you won’t be able to get your point of view across to an impatient audience.

we measure our accomplishments against the accomplishments of others, it stands to reason that the more accomplished the people we associate with, the greater our aspirations become.

Just remember that famous and powerful people are first and foremost people: They’re proud, sad, insecure, hopeful, and if you can help them achieve their goals, in whatever capacity, they will be appreciative.