Dale Carnegie Quotes - Page 15

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• If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Selfish, Apples

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• No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.

  Dale Carnegie

  Ideas, Wish, Acting

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Courage, Feelings, Tasks

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• It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

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  Hurt, Fear, Feelings

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “The Art of Public Speaking”, p.14, GENERAL PRESS

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• Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

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  Born, Great Speakers, Speakers

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• (A smile) costs nothing, but creates much.

  Dale Carnegie

  Cost

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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

  Dale Carnegie

  Courage, Business, Mistake

  Dale Carnegie, General Press (2016). “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, p.143, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you act enthusiastic, you'll be enthusiastic!

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  Enthusiastic, Ifs

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• When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

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  Mistake, Men, White

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.106, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.

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  Strong, Thinking, Tragedy

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.77, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

  Dale Carnegie

  Names, Feelings, Add

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• Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?

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  Doe, Tvs, Advertising

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Casual, Shorts

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• Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mean, Unjust Criticism, Envy

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• Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

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  Dale Carnegie (1948). “How To Stop Worrying and Start”

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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

  Ideas, Mines, Borrowed

  Newsweek, August 08, 1955.

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• Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

  Dale Carnegie

  Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Let the other person save face.

  Dale Carnegie

  Faces, Persons, Win Friends And Influence People

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.181, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

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  Inspirational, People, Desire

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• 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.

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  Indulge In, Criticism, May

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.21, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

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  Funny, Success, Business

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.4, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

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  Worry, Physicians, Patient

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

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  War, Patriotism, Literature

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

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  Preparation, Attention, Calling

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

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  Eye, Looks, Audience

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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