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How To Win Friends and Influence People
- If by the time you have finished reading the first three chapters of this book—if you aren’t then a little better equipped to meet life’s situations, then I shall consider this book to be a total failure so far as you are concerned. For “the great aim of education,” said Herbert Spencer, “is not knowledge but action.” And this is an action book.
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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- We learn by doing. So, if you desire to master the principles you are studying in this book, do something about them. Apply these rules at every opportunity. If you don’t you will forget them quickly. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- The point of the story is this: “Two Gun” Crowley didn’t blame himself for anything. Is that an unusual attitude among criminals? If you think so, listen to this: “I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.” That’s Al Capone speaki... See more
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- Remember: “First, 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.”
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- 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.
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- Thurston had a genuine interest in people. He told me that many magicians would look at the audience and say to themselves, “Well, there is a bunch of suckers out there, a bunch of hicks; I’ll fool them all right.” But Thurston’s method was totally different. He told me that every time he went on stage he said to himself: “I am grateful because the... See more
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- “It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? Well, suppose you triumph over the other man and shoot his argument full of holes and prove that he is non compos mentis. Then what? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior. You have hurt his pride. He will ... See more
from How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago