If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.