10 Powerful Quotes From The Book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

The Success Pod #1

Read time: 2 mins

1. 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.

2. The only way to get the best out of an argument is to avoid it.

3. 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.

4. You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

5. When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

6. The royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

7. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself.

8. Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

9. The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

10. If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind:

    Become genuinely interested in other people.

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