For my 21st birthday my roommates in California bought me the book “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazi.  The book is basically about the importance of networking.  Before I got passed the first 20 pages of the book my brother snagged it from me and I haven’t been able to get it back from him since, however to show you how great of a book this is, in just the first 20 pages I was inspired by the following pieces of wisdom:

• “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.”

• “Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.”

• “Real networking is about finding ways to make other people successful.  It was about working hard to give people more than you get.”

• “I’ll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity.”

• “He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that can only be cut into so many pieces.  Take a piece away, and there was that much less for him.  I knew, however, that relationships are more like muscles - the more you work them the stronger they become.”

• “It’s better to give before you receive.”

• “Contribute.  It’s like Miracle-Gro for networks.  Give your time, money and expertise to growing your community of friends.”

• “The more specific you are about what you want to do, the easier it becomes to develop a strategy to accomplish it.”

• “No one becomes an astronaut by accident.”

• “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

I can’t wait to finish reading this book.

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