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Never Eat Alone:
“80 percent of building and maintaining relationships is just staying in touch.”
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Never Eat Alone:
“You have to keep pinging and pinging and pinging and never stop. You have to feed the fire of your network or it will wither or die.”
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Never Eat Alone:
“When it comes to relationship maintenance, you have to be on your game 24/7, 365 days a year.”
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Never Eat Alone:
…find a way to ensure that you’ll contact people regularly without putting too much strain on your schedule.
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Never Eat Alone:
All successful people are planners. They think on paper. Failing to plan, as they say, is planning to fail. And a plan is a list of activities and names.
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Never Eat Alone:
Once you’ve cultivated a contact with a new associate or friend, nurture it by pinging. It’s the Miracle-Gro for your blooming garden…
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Never Eat Alone:
Don’t kid yourself – everyone cares about his or her birthday!
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Never Eat Alone:
The companionable effects of breaking bread – not to mention drinking a few glasses of wine – bring people together.
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Never Eat Alone:
Six to ten guests… the optimal number to invite to a dinner.
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Never Eat Alone:
…could God have blessed us with a better social lubricant [than wine]?
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