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Dale Carnegie
“When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives ran away? It was “lack of appreciation.”
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie
“Emerson said: “Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.”
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

Robert B. Reich
“Trump is the best thing ever to have happened to the new American oligarchy. In addition to his tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks, he stokes divisiveness in ways that keeps the bottom 90 percent from seeing how the oligarchy has taken over the reins of government, twisted government to its benefit, and siphoned off the economy’s benefits. His deal with the oligarchy has been simple: He’ll stoke division and tribalism so most Americans won’t see CEOs getting exorbitant pay while they’re slicing the pay of average workers, won’t pay attention to the giant tax cut that went to big corporations and the wealthy, and won’t notice a boardroom culture that tolerates financial conflicts of interest, insider trading, and the outright bribery of public officials through unlimited campaign donations.”
Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

Noam Chomsky
“There are lots of planned economies-the United States is a planned economy, for example. I mean, we talk ourselves as a "free market", but that's baloney. The only parts of the U.S. economy that are internationally competitive are the planned parts, the state-subsidized parts--like capital-intensive agriculture (which has a state-guaranteed market as a cushion in case there are excesses); or high-technology industry (which is dependent on the Pentagon system); or pharmaceuticals (which is massively subsidized by publically funded research). Those are the parts of the U.S. economy that are functioning well.”
Noam Chomsky, Chomsky On Anarchism

Dale Carnegie
“Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.”
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

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