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Dale Carnegie
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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Maryville
Missouri
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.
Dale Carnegie
Believe that you will succeed, and you will.
Dale Carnegie
Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
Dale Carnegie
The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.
Dale Carnegie
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
Dale Carnegie
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
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Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
Dale Carnegie
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie
Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.
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Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
Dale Carnegie
He who treads softly goes far.
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Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
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'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .
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If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie
I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
Dale Carnegie
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
Dale Carnegie
Remember that the 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.
Dale Carnegie
People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
Dale Carnegie
