Quotes from Dale Carnegie
You are not," said Norman Vincent Peale, "you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.
- Dale Carnegie
So let's obey the Golden Rule, and give unto others what we would have others give unto us, How? When? Where? The answer is: All the time, everywhere.
- Dale Carnegie
Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.
- Dale Carnegie
The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient: 'He who treads softly goes far.
- Dale Carnegie
it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.
- Dale Carnegie
But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.
- Dale Carnegie
Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
- Dale Carnegie
Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, they feel important; but when we excel them, they—or at least some of them—will feel inferior and envious.
- Dale Carnegie
Misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.
- Dale Carnegie
Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!
- Dale Carnegie
No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person
- Dale Carnegie
Recordemos el viejo proverbio: "Peleando no se consigue jamás lo suficiente, pero cediendo se consigue más de lo que se espera".
- Dale Carnegie