There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy.

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.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

The little word ‘my' is the most important one in human affairs, and properly to reckon with it is the beginning of wisdom. It has the same force whether it is ‘my' dinner, ‘my' dog, and ‘my' house, or ‘my' father, ‘my' country, and ‘my' God.

Half the nation savagely condemned these incompetent generals, but Lincoln, with malice toward none, with charity for all, held his peace. One of his favorite quotations was Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.

To be interesting, be interested.

Taft said: I don't see how I could have done any differently.