How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People

You yourself are more responsible for how you are accepted than anyone else. Many people worry about what other people will think of them. But few realize that the world forms its opinion of us, largely from the opinion we have of ourselves.

People judge you not only by the value you put on yourself…they judge you by the value you put on other things: your job, your work, even your competition.

Negative talk and negative opinions give a bad impression.

Never knock the other fellow or the other fellow’s product if you want to make a good impression. Instead, boost your own product.

But we like to have somebody that we can be ourselves with, someone we can afford to be ourselves with, because we know we will be accepted.

No one has the power to reform another person, but by liking the other person as he is, you give him the power to change himself.

You have heard on the radio or television or in the movies the words “lights, camera, action.

Remember that your very first words, actions, and attitudes invariably sound the keynote.