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If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

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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Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
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Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.
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The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
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Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
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Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.
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You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
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This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?
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STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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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.
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People support a world they helped create.
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Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
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