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The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members, and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

— A quote from How to Win Friends and Influence People, Chapter 1 - If you want to Gather Honey, Don't kick over the Beehive

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Criticism is futile because it puts people on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

— A quote from How to Win Friends and Influence People, Chapter 1 - If you want to Gather Honey, Don't kick over the Beehive

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So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

— A quote from How to Win Friends and Influence People, Chapter 2 - The Big Secret of Dealing with People

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He praised his associates publicly as well as privately. Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. His epitaph, which he wrote himself, reads: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

— A quote by Andrew Carnegie from How to Win Friends and Influence People, Chapter 2 - The Big Secret of Dealing with People

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It's a tradeoff. As is with everything.

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My personal definition of smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being technically astute but having human empathy and having the ability to infer the unspoken, the around the corners, the unknowables.

— Jenson Hwang on the definition of intelligence

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People who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart... to be able to preempt problems before they show up just because you feel the vibe.

— Jenson Hwang on the definition of intelligence

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The definition of smart is somebody who's intelligent, solve problems, technical... but I find that that's a commodity and we're about to prove that artificial intelligence is able to handle that part easiest.

— Jenson Hwang on the definition of intelligence

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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

— A quote from How to Win Friends and Influence People, Chapter 3 - He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way

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