How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders (Dale Carnegie Books)

by Dale Carnegie

“I will speak ill of no man,” he said, “… and speak all the good I know of everybody.”

Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness. “To know all is to forgive all.” As Dr. Johnson said: “God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.” Why should you and I?

people rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it.

“There is nothing either good or bad,” said Shakespeare, “but thinking makes it so.”