Dale Carnegie

United States
24 Nov 1888 // 1 Nov 1955
Writer / Lecturer

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Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

How to Win Friends & Influence People
Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

How to Win Friends & Influence People
People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.

How to Win Friends & Influence People
The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

The Art of Public Speaking
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The Leader In You
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
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.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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