“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes” merely attured to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
Ghandi
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Check back each Wednesday to see this week’s quote.
Previous Quotes:
Networking:
“Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.”
Seth Godin
“Pulling a good network together takes effort, sincerity and time.”
Alan Collins
“My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.”
Harvey Mackay
“Networking is not about just connecting people. It’s about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities.”
Michele Jennae
The single greatest “people skill” is a highly developed & authentic interest in the *other* person.
Bob Burg, Speaker & Bestselling Co-Author
It’s great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that’s not what you’re there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.
Beth Ramsay
Branding
“Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your “blind” date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.”
Tim Ferriss
“Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.”
Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon
“It’s important to build a personal brand because it’s the only thing you’re going to have.Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you’ve got to be a good person. You can’t hide anything, and more importantly, you’ve got to be out there at some level.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
Marketing
“Even when you are marketing to your entire audience or customer base, you are still simply speaking to a single human at any given time.”
Ann Handley
“Content marketing is more than a buzzword. It is the hottest trend in marketing because it is the biggest gap between what buyers want and brands produce.”
Michael Brenner
“Give them quality. That is the best kind of advertising.”
Milton Hershey
Adversity
“It is easy to mistake motion for progress and movement for achievement. That is why activity must be deliberately planned, carefully refined and consistently executed.”
Jim Rohn
“It takes courage to stand up and speak and it takes courage to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill
“In this universe, all activities, events, and entities are related. Indians believe that everything in the universe has value and instructs us in some aspect of life. Everything is alive and is making choices that determine the future, so the world is constantly creating itself… With the wisdom and time for reflection that old age provides, we may discover unsuspected relationships.”
Vine Deloria, Jr, STANDING ROCK SIOUX
“We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Who would have thought that handshakes and wearing pants would be irrelevant”
Sumair Abro