Dale Carnegie

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

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The expression one wears on one�s face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one�s back.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
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.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
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.

How to Win Friends and 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
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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