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“A great man shows his greatness,” said Carlyle, “by the way he treats little men.” (How to Win Friends and Influence People Quotes)
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire ”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“As Lord Chesterfield said to his son: Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to get something out of the other person in return – if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.” (How to Win Friends and Influence People Quotes)
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“People who smile,” he said, “tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.” (How to Win Friends and Influence People Quotes)
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“This is the day of dramatisation. Merely stating a truth isn’t enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. The movies do it. Television does it. And you will have to do it if you want attention.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“We are interested in others when they are interested in us.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives ran away? It was “lack of appreciation.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You may be right, dead right, as you speed along in your argument; but as far as changing another’s mind is concerned, you will probably be just as futile as if you were wrong.”
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
