Dale Carnegie Quotes

Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me.

The most difficult thing to do is to communicate the positive.

There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't think I said anything with venom. If you can express yourself without anger and make it as palatable as you can, that's what you do.

Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.

If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.