Quotes from Dale Carnegie

the praise you offer must be genuine and heartfelt

If I were to try to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

They are far more likely to return the favor.

Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. He wrote an epitaph for himself which read: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

later confirmed by additional studies made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering — to personality and the ability to lead people.

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all." As Dr. Johnson said: "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.

This process is a slow one, but one that will always bear fruit.

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.