Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you
DALE CARNEGIE
191
2.25K reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People provides timeless principles for building strong relationships and improving communication. Emphasizing empathy, genuine appreciation, and avoiding criticism, the book highlights strategies to influence others positively. Its practical advice fosters personal and professional growth, making it a cornerstone for successful interpersonal skills.
“
Similar ideas
The gift of reassurance
Good friends are reassuring. They don't just flatter - they understand how easily we lose perspective, panic and underestimate our own abilities.
Sometimes, they get us to laugh at ourselves when we would be inclined to indulge in self-pity or rage.
An Examples of the Appeal to Force
Adults use the fallacy more subtly.
"If you don't support the spending bill to develop better airplanes, our enemies will think we are weak and will attack us at some point, killing millions." The person offering this argument is using psychological pressure to get agreement. Ther...
Day 4:
- Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
- As Lincoln said, you destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him.
- Without enemies around us, we grow lazy.
- Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even the closest of friends can be transfor...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates