Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if - it's a question of when.

If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources versus a centralized planning system, frequently referred to as communism or socialism, the network approach does much better when it's applied accurately.

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.