Dale Carnegie Quotes

• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

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• Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

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• If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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• If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

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• If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars … or your two legs … or your hands … or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you’ll find that you won’t sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

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• Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

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• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

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• You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

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• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

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• We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

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• Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

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• There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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• The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

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• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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Dale Carnegie (62)

Birth:	24th November, 1888
Death:	1st November, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lecturer, Writer

About

Dale Harbison Carnegie was born in Maryville, Missouri. He was an American writer and lecturer. He was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Lincoln the Unknown, and several other books.

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