Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
DALE CARNEGIEThe 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.
More Dale Carnegie Quotes
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Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
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Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
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Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
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If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
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if you want to keep happiness, you have to share it!
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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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Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.
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Don’t ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
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Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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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.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.
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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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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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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Believe you will be successful and you will.
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Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
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If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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