Ask what you can do for influencers, not what influencers can do for you - develop relationships!

Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!

Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem.

If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.

Helpful is the new viral.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

Twitter marketing in 4 words: Listen. Learn. Care. Serve.

Effective results come from knowing what's in it for them. What's your community there for and how you can nurture it?

Have courage. It clears the way for things that need to be.

Want more Twitter followers? Take care of the ones you have FIRST!

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

I care about what the people I care about think about me. It's a short list, but I really care about what those people think.

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!