Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 5/5
Mindset: 5/5
Some of My Highlights:
- “…about 15 perfect of one’s financial success is due to one’s technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering – to personality and the ability to lead people.”
- “But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people – that person is headed for higher earning power.”
- “John D. Rockefeller said that ‘the ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability’ said John D., ‘than any other under the sun.'”
- “I recall that we read over one hundred biographies of Theodore Roosevelt alone.”
- “For ‘the great aim of education’ said Herbert Spencer, ‘is not knowledge but action.'”
- “Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”
- “Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.”
- “Lincoln never mailed it. It was found among his papers after his death.”
- “When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”
- “‘A great man shows his greatness,’ said Carlyle, ‘by the way he treats little men.'”
- “Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do.”
- “As Dr. Johnson said: ‘God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.’ Why should you and I?”
- “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
- “If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.”
- “The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere.”
- “‘If there is one secret of success,’ said Henry Ford, ‘it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s range as well as from your own.'”
- “People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the working of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.”
- “Most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.”
- “William Winter once remarked that ‘self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.'”