Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

You have to envision yourself winning to win.

In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.

What we believe about something often creates the outcome we experience.

I can hear your angered silence, Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance, Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart.

By observing your judging mind, you can avoid automatically buying into these negative judgments...This transforms your experience of stress by taking the terror and panic out of it.

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.