How to Win Friends and Influence People - Quotes

Here are a few quotes from the book How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie:

• It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
• Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter 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.
• Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving
• Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
• Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
• To be interesting, be interested.
• Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain
• Be sincere in appreciation
• "I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it."
• "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him"
• "Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home."
• “Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.”