Tahl Raz

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

—Margaret Wheatley

You can’t get there alone. In fact, you can’t get very far at all.

When you help others, they often help you. “Reciprocity” is

Many people have adapted to these new times with the belief that it’s still a dog-eat-dog world, where the meanest, baddest dog in the neighborhood wins. But nothing could be further from the truth.

SUCCESS IN LIFE = (THE PEOPLE YOU MEET) + (WHAT YOU CREATE TOGETHER).

Today’s most valuable currency is social capital,

. Today’s most valuable currency is social capital,

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

And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the “club,” whether he started out as a caddie or not.

as employing what had become one of the FBI’s most potent negotiating tools: the open-ended question.