Dale Carnegie

"My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people."

Reading should entertain, give information, or stimulate thought.

Do not confine your reading to what you already know you will agree with. Opposition wakes one up.

Approach each subject with an open mind and—once sure that you have thought it out thoroughly and honestly

Knowing more about it than the other man will be your only hope for making the other man listen to you.

Write out a three–minute speech on any subject you choose. How much information, and what new ideas, does it contain?

read a book on the practise of thinking? If so, give your impressions of its value

6. Write out a three–minute speech on any subject you choose. How much information, and what new ideas, does it contain?

preparation consists in something more definite than the cultivation of thought–power, whether from original or from borrowed sources—it involves a specifically acquisitive attitude of the whole life. If you would become a full soul you must constantly take in and assimilate, for in that way only may you hope to give out that which is worth the hearing;

Suit your topics to your strength,

And ponder well your subject, and its length;