Quotes from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People

Les Giblin ·  192 pages

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“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.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People


“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.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People


“Negative talk and negative opinions give a bad impression.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People


“Never knock the other fellow or the other fellow’s product if you want to make a good impression. Instead, boost your own product.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People


“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.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People



“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.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People


“You have heard on the radio or television or in the movies the words “lights, camera, action.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People


“Remember that your very first words, actions, and attitudes invariably sound the keynote.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People


About the author

Les Giblin
Born place: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The United States
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