Dale Carnegie Quotes

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Dale Carnegie

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 24, 1888

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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

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

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

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

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

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

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