Quotes from Dale Carnegie

If I send this letter, it will relieve my feelings, but it will make Meade try to justify himself. It will make him condemn me. It will arouse hard feelings, impair all his further usefulness as a commander, and perhaps force him to resign from the army.

Talk About Your Own Mistakes First

Se ha de enseñar a los hombres como si no se les enseñara. Y proponerles cosas ignoradas como si fueran olvidadas.

Get your principles right, said Napoleon, and the rest is a matter of detail.

To whom have I the honour of speaking?

The difference was in the details.

Sólo sé que no sé nada".

Yacen aquí los despojos de un pobre viajero. Murió defendiendo su derecho de paso: Razón le sobraba, estaba en lo justo, lo cierto. Mas tan muerto está como si hubiera errado.

confusion is the chief cause of worry.

People sometimes became invalids in order to win sympathy and attention, and get a feeling of importance

sharp criticisms and rebukes almost invariably end in futility.

She was nineteen, had graduated from high school three years previously, and her business experience was a trifle more than zero. She became one of the most proficient secretaries west of Suez, but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

If all we had to do was flatter, everybody would catch on and we should all be experts in human relations.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

they sought small, meaningful ways to leave people a little better.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN  HANDLING PEOPLE PRINCIPLE 1 Don't criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Bien, escuche. Yo pienso de otro modo, pero quizá me equivoque. Me equivoco con tanta frecuencia... Y si me equivoco, quiero corregir mi error.

And 2,200 years before Christ was born, King Akhtoi of Egypt gave his son some shrewd advice—advice that is sorely needed today. "Be diplomatic," counseled the King. "It will help you gain your point.

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

they also want their names known.

En nuestra agencia hemos cometido tantos errores, que con frecuencia me siento avergonzado. Es posible que nos hayamos equivocado en su caso. Dígame cómo fue".

Who died maintaining his right of way— He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he were wrong.

were a ritual: "He is nothing but a boy—a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother's arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much.