Mastery — Quote 32
“When it is time to ask for a favor or help, you must think first of appealing to people’s selfinterest in some way.You must give them something valuable in exchange for helping you, a return favor that will save them time, a contact they need, and so on. Sometimes the chance to look good in doing you a favor or supporting a cause will suffice, but it is generally better to find something stronger than that, some concrete benefit they can foresee coming from you in the future”
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