„When life gives you lemons, make lemonade“
Variant: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
Birthdate: 24. November 1888
Date of death: 1. November 1955
Other names: Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People , a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living , Lincoln the Unknown , and several other books.
One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's behavior toward them.
Variant: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Variant: Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 52 (in 1998 edition)
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 5
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Part 1 : Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Context: Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "... and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man shows his greatness," says Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men."
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Variant: When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
On his book How to Win Friends and Influence People as quoted in Newsweek (8 August 1955); also quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) by James Beasley Simpson, p. 128.
Context: The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use?
As quoted in The Ring of Truth (2004) by Joseph O'Day
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 110
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie, quoted in Permission to Play : Taking Time to Renew Your Smile (2003) by Jill Murphy Long, p. 69
— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People