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

About Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie ( KAR-nig-ee; spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win...

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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

—Dale Carnegie

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

—Dale Carnegie

all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

—Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

—Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

—Dale Carnegie

More quotations tagged with “friendship”

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

—Czech Proverb

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

—Colleen Wainwright

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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