Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

Read books so that you own your own job just like Deion Sanders owned his.

But never borrow the book as a substitute for owning and studying it yourself—you don’t want to miss the marking process. If you can stomach the metaphor, merely scanning another person’s notes without actually reading the text is a little like digesting someone else’s meal.

“Mr. Stanley told me that one of the ways great merchants are differentiated from the not-so-great ones is: Don’t go just by how much the product sells. Decide if the product is right for your customers. If it isn’t, even if it’s selling well, it could be wrong for your company and hinder your ability to build a loyal brand. It’s not just about mak

Books should be your diet’s staple because they are the complete thought-meal, containing hypotheses, data, research, and conclusions, combined in a thorough attempt to transfer knowledge. If they’re good, they contain that essential value prop, that meta-idea, or that statement of fact that gives the reader a unique perspective.

Still, all in all, bizlove means never having to say “You owe me.”

Success in the future will be based on the fuzzy intangibles: the way you speak as a leader, the culture you nurture, the processes for managing information you set up for your people, the partnerships you form around technology’s opportunities and challenges.

who would appreciate your new knowledge. This isn’t much different from those times when, as teenagers, we bought great records and couldn’t wait to play them for our best friends because we knew they would dig them—when their eyes lit up, it made us feel like deejays. Here you can be an idea deejay.

Few things are more annoying in your personal or your professional life than a person who is warm one minute and cold the next. No matter the context, it hurts.

Lovecats who hug and kiss without adding value are just like Big Joe—a waste of everyone’s time.