“Networking is pretending to care about strangers for personal gain. Networking is the startup sport where charm, business cards, and carefully timed coffee meetings replace actual progress. Networking is a survival skill disguised as small talk.”
Source: Chaos.: Where dreams, disasters, and money collide.
“There is a networking game to be played — and it’s not the one you’ve been taught.”
Source: The Social Billionaire: A Networking Roadmap for Women Seeking to Flourish and Achieve More
“Your thoughts become your attitudes, which become your actions, which become your behavior, which become your habits, which become your lifestyle, and inevitably determine your outcomes. Utilize this circular truth by using positive thoughts to create positive outcomes. It is a choice you get to make every day. Choose wisely.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“UN-Impressives
• Lying.
• Bragging.
• Gossiping.
• Cursing and using foul language.
• Making self-deprecating comments.
• Regularly expressing worry and anxiety.
• Criticizing and condemning people and situations.
• Demonstrating a lack of emotional intelligence or compassion.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Be careful when you choose your network. It decides your growth.”
Source: A Diary to Win: The Journey of a Success Conscious Person
“The directive we have so often heard, “Change your thoughts, change your life,” is indeed based on the power of words. The key to your happiness, well-being, and interactions with others begins, continues, and concludes with the nature and quality of the words you hold in your mind as thoughts. Make them work for your highest good.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“The "Law of Attraction," based on the principle of cause and effect, is not only a process of reaping what you sow through your actions. Its magnetic impact derives from the words you use, attracting and reinforcing whatever you are thinking about and putting out into the world through your speech.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“If you want to attract greater success, prosperity, health, and to enjoy more fulfilling relationships, craft your speech to affirm and manifest them.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“The Words You Write
“Few things scream ‘unprofessional’ faster than a poorly written letter or resume filled with errors, misspellings, misuse, and negligence.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Growing up with well-educated parents and an older sister with her Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature, I was left with little wiggle room as a child to use poor grammar. When I would inadvertently slip, I would be corrected in a matter of moments—excuse me, seconds! While it may have been irritating for a 10-year-old, I am eternally grateful as an adult that the grammar police kept me in line.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact