Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Listening is just as important in one's home life as in the world of business.

Ver las cosas según el punto de vista ajeno puede facilitarlo todo cuando los problemas personales se vuelven abrumadores.

Dr. Sadler opened up the drawers of his desk. All empty—except for supplies. "Tell me," said the patient, "where do you keep your unfinished business?" "Finished!" said Sadler. "And where do you keep your unanswered mail?" "Answered!" Sadler told him. "My rule is never to lay down a letter until I have answered it. I

In the long run, no one but the originator remembers things such as whose idea it was, who spoke first, or who took the first risk. What people remember is magnanimity.

If you're wrong, admit it!

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say: "To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day.

The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing. So

wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We

For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: "If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

THE BIG SECRET OF DEALING WITH PEOPLE

people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

And that was the killer who said: 'Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one—one that would do nobody any harm.

It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.

Son, you are 1500 miles from home, and you don't feel any different, do you? I knew you wouldn't, because you took with you the one thing that is the cause of all your trouble, that is, yourself. There is nothing wrong with either your body or your mind. It is not the situations you have met that have thrown you; it is what you think of these situations. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." When you realize that, son, come home, for you will be cured.

measure my accomplishments," said Daniel W. Josselyn, "not by how tired I am at the end of the day, but how tired I am not." He said, "When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.

Mr. Funkhouser, I believe I can make money for you.

Good Working Habit No. 2: Do Things in the Order of Their Importance.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my self-esteem.

White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, then president of the company

Esto es lo que hacía Schwab. Pero, ¿qué hace la persona común? Precisamente lo contrario. Si alguna cosa no le gusta, arma un escándalo; si le gusta, no dice nada.