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🐬 Success depends on the support of other people. Always.
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- Think right toward people, and they will like and support you.
- In most evaluations of management, the likability factor is weighed far more heavily than the technical aspect.
- A person is not pulled up to a higher level job, he is lifted up. The individual who has a record that stands above the rest will get the position. Being likable makes you lighter to lift.
President Johnson's 10 Rules for Success
- Learn to remember names.
- Be a comfortable person so there is no strain in being with you.
- Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-going so that things do nut ruffle you.
- Don't be egotistical. Guard against the impression that you know it all.
- Cultivate the quality of being interesting so people will get something of value from their association with you.
- Study to get the “scratchy” elements out of your personality, even those of which you may be unconscious.
- Sincerely attempt to heal, on an honest basis, every misunderstanding you have had or now have. Drain off your grievances.
- Practice liking people until you learn to do so genuinely.
- Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment.
- Give spiritual strength to people, and they will give genuine affection to you.
How to Win Friends
- Friendship can't be bought. When we try to do so:
- We waste money
- We create contempt