Dale Carnegie Latter Quotations

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.