Dale Carnegie

People support a world they helped create.

— Dale Carnegie

Always avoid the acute angle.

— Dale Carnegie

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

— Dale Carnegie

“Don’t criticise, condemn or complain.”

— Dale Carnegie

“All things are ready if the mind be so.”

— Dale Carnegie

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

— Dale Carnegie

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

— Dale Carnegie

Confusion is the main cause of worry

— Dale Carnegie

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

— Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

— Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

— Dale Carnegie

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.

— Dale Carnegie

I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Dale Carnegie

“Lincoln apparently never even thought of correcting his son.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.”

— Dale Carnegie

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for…

— Dale Carnegie

“The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes. You deserve very…

— Dale Carnegie

“Shaw once remarked: “If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.” Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We…

— Dale Carnegie

“to be genuinely interested in other people is a most important quality for a sales-person to possess—for any person, for that matter.”

— Dale Carnegie

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

— Dale Carnegie

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof,” said Confucius, “when your own doorstep is unclean.”

— Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered…

— Dale Carnegie

“That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to…

— Dale Carnegie

The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would…

— Dale Carnegie

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact,…

— Dale Carnegie

“The people most widely respected within industries, companies, families, and groups of friends are those who are clear in their own viewpoints…

— Dale Carnegie

“If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without…

— Dale Carnegie

Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb…

— Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of…

— Dale Carnegie

“If you do these things (read good books), what will be your reward? Gradually, unconsciously but inevitably, your diction will begin to…

— Dale Carnegie

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he…

— Dale Carnegie

Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary…

— Dale Carnegie

Be a balanced optimist. Nobody is suggesting that you become an oblivious Pollyanna, pretending that nothing bad can or ever will happen.…

— Dale Carnegie

“One of the most distinguished psychiatrists living, Dr. Carl Jung, says in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul (*):…

— Dale Carnegie

“Do this and You’ll be Welcome Anywhere Why read this book to find out how to win friends? Why not study the…

— Dale Carnegie

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals…

— Dale Carnegie

“Years ago I conducted a course in fiction writing at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and we wanted such distinguished…

— Dale Carnegie

Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no…

— Dale Carnegie

“When I was five years old, my father bought a little yellow-haired pup for fifty cents. He was the light and joy…

— Dale Carnegie