“I drink to make other people interesting. ”
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)
Jim White (February 17, 1994) "POP / Hi, I'm Dave - lovely to see you: Last week, David Lee Roth went to Wembley to promote his new album - not at the stadium but at the distribution factory, saying hello to the packers and the pressers, 'making friends at the retail level'. Jim White jumped into the limo to discover where people fit in with 'this rock'n'roll thing'" The Independent, p. 27.
“Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.”
“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
Grace Is Gone
Busted Stuff (2002)
“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”
“My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.”
In an interview in Film Comment, May/June 1990
Interviews
“MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.”
"Principles of Money Management" (9 March 1972).
Scientology Policy Letters
