Dale Carnegie

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Dale Carnegie

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Dale Carnegie

Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Dale Carnegie

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves – morning, noon and after dinner.

Dale Carnegie

People do things for ‘their’ reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.

Dale Carnegie

People like people who help them like themselves.

Dale Carnegie

People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.

Dale Carnegie

people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Dale Carnegie

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

Dale Carnegie