Dale Carnegie Quotes

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

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.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.

I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

Later in life, I learnt that in order to deal with people, one has to be gentle and give them respect. That always works.

At the end of the day what matters most is that we can cut through the pettiness and drama when it really counts and support each other.

The way to connect to people is to relate to who they are and do something that stretches you outside of your comfort zone.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

We must take our friends as they are.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I'm good at picking friends.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.