The Go-Giver by Bob Burg

The Go-Giver

7.7/103 min read

5/27/22

  • Being a giving person is how you achieve success in the first place

  • A giver gives thought, attention, care, focus, time and energy. Gives value to others

  • The more you give, the more you have

  • To reach stratospheric success, people need to have something on the inside, something that’s genuine

  • The trade secret is giving

  • Most of us have grown up seeing the world as a place of limitation rather than as a place of inexhaustible treasures. A world of competition rather than one of co-creation

  • You get what you expect

  • It never hurts to be kind to people

  • Appearances can be deceiving

  • Everyone likes to be appreciated

  • People will do business with and refer business to those people they know, like, and trust

  • Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment

  • Does it make money is a bad first question. It starts you off pointed in the wrong direction. The first question should, ‘Does it serve? Does it add value to others?’

  • You give, give, give because you love to. It’s not a strategy, it’s a way of life. And when you do, then very, very profitable things begin to happen

  • The first law: the law of value: your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment

  • The second law: the law of compensation: your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them

  • If you want more success, find a way to serve more people

  • “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.” - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

  • The third law: the law of influence: your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interest first

  • Whoever said being anxious gets more accomplished?

  • The more ambassadors you have, the more referrals coming your way

  • Stop keeping score

  • Watch out for what other people need, with the faith that when you do, you’ll get what you need

  • Peoples love to give makes them attractive. That’s why they’re attractive. Givers attract

  • As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you

  • The fourth law: the law of authenticity: the most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself

  • It’s better to give than to receive

  • Every giving can happen only because it is also a receiving

  • All the giving in the world won’t bring success, won’t create the results you want, unless you also make yourself willing and able to receive in like measure

  • If you don’t let yourself receive, you’re refusing the gifts of others—and you shut down the flow

  • The fifth law: the law of receptivity: the key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving

  • The point is not what you do. Not what you accomplish. It’s who you are

  • #SharedFromTwos ✌️