David Topus > Quotes

“All you have to do is look in front of you, behind you, beside you, and across from you. And then with a simple acknowledgment—a nod, a smile, a question, or comment, you can unearth unlimited potential.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“you distinguish yourself from the crowd when you show genuine curiosity about someone else;”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“Networking has found its way to the front and center of the professional world, since who you know is often more important than what you know.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“an insatiable curiosity about the people I encounter wherever I go.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“Creativity and innovation are in great demand today, but is in short supply.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“The world will manifest opportunities to you in direct proportion to how much opportunity you believe is there for the taking.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“his original point always stuck with me—whatever we’re doing now is a cumulative result of everyone who has ever influenced us.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“If the other person is talking about a specific problem, offer a solution. If the person is talking about a personal goal, offer a way to achieve it. If the person is looking for something, help find it.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“Extraordinary communicators are fully present when they communicate and interact with another person.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“To be a successful random connector, you must trust first and foremost—from the moment you leave your house each day—that the world is a friendly place.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“Good listening doesn’t only help build your credibility; it gives you the information you need to know what’s possible in the relationship.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“Ask more questions than you make statements. And try to listen more than you talk.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“Success involves being other-centric, that is, making the other person the center of the conversation by letting him or her talk and act as if he or she is the most important person in the world.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life

“Opportunities don’t come to those who wait; they come to those who create them.”
― David Topus, Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life