Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.
The business of business is people, not products or services. Take care of the people, and the people will take care of you.
The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.
This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU?
Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.
A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.
The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.
I just bought a rotary phone, a Rolodex, and a polyester suit. Oh yes, I’m now ready to start networking.
On a scale of 1 to extroverted, I’m a 3.14159. So is pi. I network like “the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.” Thanks, Wikipedia!
Personal branding is important to me as a person. It’s also important to me as a non-person. I am a rock.
All the time and effort put into networking can be all for naught if there is no follow-through. The same goes for sales. And leadership. And … well, everything.
I can’t sell you while you’re trying to sell me. So how about we just talk and call it networking?
If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.
When I was fighting, I would look to excite the crowds with a bolo punch or something taunting. Looking back, they were legal - but not sportsmanlike. I don't recommend another boxer try them. But we looked more to make the robot fights dramatic firs...
Hotel Manager: Have you tried looking under the bed? Meg Swan: Of course I've looked under the bed, of course I've looked under the bed. That's where you look when you lose things.
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
It is good to know the truth and to speak the truth. It is even better to know the truth and speak about palm trees.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Proverbs 21:9
It's better to die two years early than to live one year too long.
It's better to do good in the neighborhood than to burn incense far away.
Better reap two days too soon than one too late.
