
How to Win Friends and Influence People

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
The others had been trying to sell me on their service, but one let me sell myself. That organisation won.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
The modest way in which I propos’d my opinions procur’d them a readier reception and less contradiction;
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
‘In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.’
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
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 goodwill.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.’
Dale Carnegie • How to Win Friends and Influence People
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.