Don’t you know I am just as busy as you are – or, at least, I like to think I am.
-Principle 3, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.69 Continue reading Don’t you know I am just as busy as you are – or, at least, I like to think I am.
-Principle 3, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.69 Continue reading Don’t you know I am just as busy as you are – or, at least, I like to think I am.
I am worried about my own problems. The bank is foreclosing the mortgage on my house, the bugs are destroying the hollyhocks, the stock market tumbled yesterday. I missed the eight-fifteen this morning, I wasn’t invited to the Jones’s dance last night, the doctor tells me I have high blood pressure and neuritis and dandruff. And then what happens? I come to the office this morning worried, open my mail and here is some little whippersnapper off in New York yapping about what his company wants. Bah! If he only realized what sort of impression his letter makes, he would … Continue reading Who cares what your company desires?
…it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.” -Principle 3, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.66 Continue reading Henry Ford said: ” If there’s any one secret to success…
That question will stop us from rushing into a situation heedlessly, with futile chatter about our desires. -Principle 3, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.64 Continue reading Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, PAUSE and ask yourself:”How can I make this person want to do it?”
Every act that you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. -Principle 3, How to Win Friends and Influence People, p.62 Continue reading The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.