How to Win Friends & Influence People

“If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick over the Beehive” Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breads 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?

Do this and you’ll Be Welcome anywhere?

Did you ever stop to think that a dog is the only animal that doesn’t have to work for a living? A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but LOVE.

You don’t want to listen to cheap, insincere flattery, but do crave sincere appreciation. You want your friends and associates to be, as Charles Schwab put it, “hearty in their approbation and lavish in their praise” All of us want that. If you want to know to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: NEVER LISTEN TO ANYONE FOR LONG.

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. WHY? Well, suppose you triumph over the other man and shoot his argument full of holes and prove that he is non compos mentis. Then what? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior. You have hurt his pride. He will resent your triumph. And – A man convinced against his will

Is of the same opinion still.