Quotes from Dale Carnegie

the more important a dog is, the more satisfaction people get in kicking him.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. – Dianna Booher

Nh?ng công vi?c ? ngay trÆ°á»›c m?t ta ph?i coi là quan tr?ng nh?t, và ??ng b?n tâm tá»›i nh?ng công vi?c còn m? m? t? xa

If we do not understand the significance of our presence, we can never give anyone the present of our lives.

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

Principle 9 - Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

or the next night. Who was he? A naïve, untrained individual ready to gush over any new theory that came

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.

No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do," because "all of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment , of education, of acquired habits and of heredity molding men as they are and will forever be.

but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

when you are displeased, it is much easier to criticize and condemn than it is to try to understand the other person's viewpoint; it is frequently easier to find fault than to find praise; it is more natural to talk about what you want than to talk about what the other person wants; and so on.

Nada há que eu necessite tanto como estímulos para minha vaidade".

popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

Finally, the wind calmed down and gave up, and then the sun came out from behind the clouds and smiled kindly on the old man. Presently, he mopped his brow and pulled off his coat. The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force. p160

Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.

Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.

Ya lo dijo Lincoln hace cerca de cien años. Estas son sus palabras: Una vieja y exacta máxima dice que una gota de miel caza más moscas que un galón de hiel También ocurre con los hombres que si usted quiere ganar a alguien a su causa, debe convencerlo primero de que es usted un amigo sincero. Ahí está la gota de miel que caza su corazón; el cual, dígase lo que se quiera, es el camino real hacia su razón.

He asked questions with which his opponent would have to agree. He kept on winning one admission after another until he had an armful of yeses. He kept on asking questions until finally, almost without realizing it, his opponents found themselves embracing a conclusion they would have bitterly denied a few minutes previously.

He wanted a feeling of importance; and as long as Mr. Parsons argued with him, he got his feeling of importance by loudly asserting his authority. But as soon as his importance was admitted and the argument stopped and he was permitted to expand his ego, he became a sympathetic and kindly human being.

Foresee how you are going to begin when the mind is fresh to grasp every word you utter. Foresee what impression you are going to leave last—when nothing else follows to obliterate it.

most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.