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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.

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
DALE CARNEGIE

Action Management Planning Save Time Yourself
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
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Criticism Dangerous Hurt Important Person Pride
One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
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Attention Interest Oneself People Time Win
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Empathy Quick Wrong
Don’t ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
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Himself Important Man Time
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Busy Fear Home Thinking Yourself
You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.
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Age Beginning Time World Yourself
The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
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Afraid Decision Defeat Fear Forget Hard Work Way
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Aspiration Attention Conversation Goodness Listening Person Yourself
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Happiness Success Yourself
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
DALE CARNEGIE

Exception Existence Fear Mindset
Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.
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Honesty Person Point See Try View
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
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Advantage Competition Individual People Rare Seek World
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
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Afraid Attack Enemy Friendship Praise Yourself
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
DALE CARNEGIE

Fun People Rare
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
DALE CARNEGIE

Development Encouragement Failure 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.

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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.

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