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?
Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
Become genuinely interested in other people.
One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Our thoughts make us what we are.
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.
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.
Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
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.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.
Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.
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