Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.