Dale Carnegie quotes

“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.”

— Dale Carnegie

“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”

— Dale Carnegie

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Dale Carnegie

“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.”

— Dale Carnegie

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

— Dale Carnegie

“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.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?”

— Dale Carnegie

“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Applause is a receipt, not a bill.”

— Dale Carnegie

“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.”

— Dale Carnegie

“If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.”

— Dale Carnegie

“We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Dale Carnegie

“You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.”

— Dale Carnegie

“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.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.”

— Dale Carnegie

“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.”

— Dale Carnegie

“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”

— Dale Carnegie

“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.”

— Dale Carnegie