Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Pois a vida é curta demais para ser pequena.

This result is as important for the owner of a business as it is for authors and bloggers.

Aristotle called this land of attitude "enlightened selfishness." Zoroaster said, "Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness." And Benjamin Franklin summed it up very simply—"When you are good to others," said Franklin, "you are best to yourself.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are. That determines your character. That is the most significant thing about you.

This is when my business began to not only turn around; it began to take off.

When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.8

rhyme as one of his mottoes: For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

So the sun went behind a cloud, and the wind blew until it was almost a tornado, but the harder it blew, the tighter the old man clutched his coat to him. 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.

realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism—no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

mas acredito que uma atitude mental positiva ajuda o corpo a combater a doença. E eu

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

What applies to professionals applies doubly to workers in offices, shops and factories and our families and friends.

It's also likely you would come to appreciate them more.

The next time Trouble—with a capital T—backs you up in a corner, try the magic formula of Willis H Carrier: a. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can't solve my problem?" b. Prepare yourself mentally to accept the worst—if necessary. c. Then calmly try to improve upon the worst—which you have already mentally agreed to accept.

Welcome the disagreement. Remember the slogan, "When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

In talking with people, DON'T begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing—and keep on emphasizing—the things on which you agree.

I taught President Roosevelt how to handle a car with a lot of unusual gadgets, but he taught me a lot about the fine art of handling people.

Roosevelt, and Dorothy Dix. But that was only a beginning. I also did something else that was far more important than the interviews

About ninety percent of the things in our lives are right and about ten percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that are right and ignore the ten percent that are wrong.

Say to yourself over and over: "My peace of mind, my happiness, my health, and perhaps even my income will, in the long run, depend largely on applying the old, obvious, and eternal truths taught in this book.

every month all the insurance contracts her company issues. Yes, she reads the same contracts over month after month, year after year. Why? Because experience has taught