Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

these universities decided they could struggle along somehow without my help.

when we're wrong, they certainly expect us to own up to it.

La única forma de salir ganando en una discusión es evitándola.

Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying.

His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-one words that he read in the spring of 1871—twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

How well you own up to your mistakes makes a bigger impression than how you revel in your successes.

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.

customers like to feel that they are buying, not being sold.

I had to help them solve their problems. I had to make each session so inspiring that they wanted to continue coming.

This process is a slow one, but one that will always bear fruit.

Did Dr. Osler mean to say that we should not make any effort to prepare for tomorrow? No. Not at all. But he did go on in that address to say that the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

When we talk about our mistakes, it makes us human.

far easier to give a talk that skims over the surface than to dig down for facts. But when you take the easy way you make little or no impression on the audience. After you have narrowed your subject, then the next step is to ask yourself questions that will deepen your understanding and prepare you to talk with authority on the topic you have chosen:

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Siempre que Roosevelt esperaba a un visitante se quedaba hasta muy tarde, la noche anterior a su llegada, instruyéndose en el tema sobre el cual sabía que se interesaba particularmente el huésped esperado.

I discovered years ago that although I couldn't keep people from criticizing me unjustly, I could do something infinitely more important: I could determine whether I would let the unjust condemnation disturb me.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail— Be the best of whatever you are!

Lincoln hadn't wanted advice. He had wanted a sympathetic, trusted listener to whom he could unburden himself.

It becomes easier for people to relate to us.

un profundo, impulsivo deseo de aprender, una vigorosa decisión de aumentar su capacidad para tratar con la gente.

You have made a mistake, Josephine," he would begin, "but Lord knows, it's no worse than many I have made.

It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.

Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?