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)
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
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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.
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“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
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“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
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“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”
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Variant: you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
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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.
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“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”
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