Quotes about Connection
If we want to make friends, let's put ourselves out to do things for other people — things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness.
— Dale Carnegie
Say 'Hello' in tones that bespeak how pleased you are to have the person call.
— Dale Carnegie
Try your best to develop an ability to let others look into your head and heart. Learn to make your thoughts, your ideas, clear to others, individually, in groups, in public. You will find, as you improve in your effort to do this, that you—your real self—are making an impression, an impact, on people such as you never made before.
— Dale Carnegie
People are moved when their interactions with you always leave them a little better.
— Dale Carnegie
there is no such thing as a neutral exchange. You leave someone either a little better or a little worse.
— Dale Carnegie
The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
— Dale Carnegie
It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
— Dale Carnegie
To repeat Professor Overstreet's wise advice: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
— Dale Carnegie
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
— Dale Carnegie
Become genuinely interested in other people.
— Dale Carnegie
Let me repeat that. 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.
— Dale Carnegie
So the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
— Dale Carnegie