Be A Winner

These are my notes from "How To Win Friends and Influence People", a book written by Dale Carnegie.

Monday, August 28, 2006

Talk about Your Own Mistakes before Criticizing the Other Person

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Talk about Your Own Mistakes First 1. "She was susceptible to improvement" 2. It isn't nearly so difficult to listen to a reci...

The Handy Principle

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We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply... It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkn...

Call Attention to People's Mistakes Indirectly

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How to Criticize - And Not Be Hated for It 1. They admired Charles Schwab because he said nothing about breaking the rules and gave them a l...

Begin with Praise and Honest Appreciation

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If You Must Find Fault, This is the Way to Begin 1. It is always easier to listen to unpleasant things after we have heard some praise of ou...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Begin in a friendly way

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A Drop of Honey 1. If your temper is aroused and you tell’em a thing or two, you will have a fine time unloading your feelings. But what abo...

Dramatize your ideas

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The movies do it. TV Does it. Why don’t you do it? 1. This is the day of dramatization. Merely stating the truth isn’t enough. The truth h...

Appeal to the Nobler Motives

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An Appeal That Everybody Likes 1. A person usually has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good and a real one. 2. All of us, bei...

Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires

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What Everybody Wants 1. Wouldn’t you like to have a magic phrase that would stop arguments, eliminate ill feeling, create good will, and mak...
Friday, July 07, 2006

Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view

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A Formula that Will Work Wonders for You 1. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to understand others instead of condemning them...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers

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How to get cooperation 1. Don’t you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a s...

Let the other person do a great deal of the talking

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The Safety Valve in Handling Complaints 1. Most people trying to win others to their way of thinking do too much talking themselves. 2. Let ...
Monday, July 03, 2006

Get the other person saying “Yes, Yes!” Immediately

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The Secret of Socrates 1. In talking with people, don’t begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing – and keep...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically

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If You’re Wrong, Admit it 1. If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn’t it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ours...

Show respect for the other’s person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.”

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A Sure Way To Make Enemies – and How to Avoid It 1. Theodore Roosevelt once confessed, “that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he...

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it

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You can’t win an argument 1. There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will 2. Why prove to a man that he is wrong? Is...
Friday, June 30, 2006

Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely

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How to Make People Like You Instantly 1. Ask yourself: What is it about this person that I can honestly admire 2. You will get the feeling t...
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