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How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Win Friends and Influence People

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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

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)

“To be interesting, be interested.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

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“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 it.”

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

“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Variant: you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“We are gods in the chrysalis.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

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

“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

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