Dale Carnegie Quotes

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

On the professional side, I derive great happiness and energy by solving tough business and organisational problems - even taking on tough meetings with customers.

Bill Kenwright has taught me how to deal with people.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals.

I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.

I was a bartender for four years, and that was the best training that I had for learning how to approach people.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

I've always surrounded myself with talented people, both in film and in business.

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

I am very much a people person.