“If out of reading this book you get just one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.”

—  Dale Carnegie , How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 63

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