Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
Dale Harbison Carnegiewas an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Lincoln the Unknown, and several other books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 November 1888
CityMaryville, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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- live-for-today
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Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Let the other person save face.
arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.