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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Dale Carnegie

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

Fools Important Intelligence Life Man Profit Simplicity
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
DALE CARNEGIE

Chance Debate Listening Resistance Talk Understand
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
DALE CARNEGIE

Bright Live See Smile Yourself
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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Accomplishment Admire People Worry Yourself
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Different Himself Man Profit Success Way
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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Believe Bored Death Heart Life Live Work Yourself
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
DALE CARNEGIE

Accomplishment Hope Important World
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
DALE CARNEGIE

Apply Knowledge Power
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.
DALE CARNEGIE

Condition Control Happiness Listening Seek Thinking World Yourself
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
DALE CARNEGIE

Complaint Control Criticism Fools Forgiveness Understand
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
DALE CARNEGIE

Happiness Remember Thinking Yourself
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
DALE CARNEGIE

Mistake Time Yourself
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.
DALE CARNEGIE

Advantage Competition Individual People Rare Seek World
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
DALE CARNEGIE

Criticism Mistake Person Talk
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
DALE CARNEGIE

Friendship Interest People Yourself
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
DALE CARNEGIE

Empathy Quick Wrong

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