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Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Motivational Speaker
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Maryville
Missouri
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Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, How can I make this person want to do it?
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Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.
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There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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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.
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Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.
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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.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. It's only when necessity faces us that we rise to the occasion and actually do the things that hitherto have seemed impossible.
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If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
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Confusion is the main cause of worry
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A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India
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Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.
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If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
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When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: Try to bear lightly what needs must be. Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
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Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.
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