Dale Carnegie Quotes
You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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In today's world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and personal fulfillment. We can no longer afford to educate the few to think, and the many to do.
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I work in the mornings almost exclusively.
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Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
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As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
