Win Friends And Influence People Quotes by Rainbow Rowell, Dale Carnegie, Henry Ford, John Dewey, Becca Fitzpatrick, Benjamin Franklin and many others.
(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Merely stating a truth isn’t enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Always make the other person feel important.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
actions speak louder than words
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.
