Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.