Quotes from Dale Carnegie

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

Even family acquaintances whom I had never met emailed their breast cancer stories

Fear, worry, hate, supreme selfishness, and the inability to adjust themselves to the world of reality—these were largely the causes of their stomach illnesses and stomach ulcers

Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.

This amazing outpouring of courage and love started a recovery journey that has changed my life….

I am going to meet people today who talk too much—people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn't imagine a world without such people.

You cannot step in the same river twice. The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today

Even a Mongolian idiot wouldn't dream of trying to go back 180 million years to change those tracks.

Stress is the trash of modern life—we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

Giving away credit is a magical multiplier

The bottom line is that you must become genuinely interested in others before you can ever expect anyone to be interested in you. "All things being equal," said author John Maxwell in a recent interview, "people do business with people they like.

So why is credit stolen far more often than shared?

The next morning I got up very early and called the florist and had them send six red roses to my wife with a note saying: 'I can't think of six things I would like to change about you. I love you the way you are.' When I arrived at home that evening, who do you think greeted me at the door: That's right. My wife! She was almost in tears. Needless to say, I was extremely glad I had not criticized her as she had requested.

Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

El mundialmente famoso psicólogo B. F. Skinner comprobó, mediante experimentación con animales, que premiando la buena conducta los animales aprenden más rápido y retienen con más eficacia que castigando la mala conducta. Estudios posteriores probaron lo mismo aplicado a los seres humanos.

The opportunities are endless if they are embraced.

We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.

Some authorities declare that people may actually go insane in order to find, in the dreamland of insanity, the feeling of importance that has been denied them in the harsh world of reality.

Por medio de la crítica nunca provocamos cambios duraderos, y con frecuencia creamos resentimiento.

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.

but a simple smile takes little effort—and the rewards can be astonishing.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

Ahora estoy convencida de que no puede lograrse nada bueno, y sí puede hacerse mucho daño, si uno le dice directamente a una persona que está equivocada. Sólo se consigue despojar a esa persona de su autodignidad, y uno queda como un entrometido.