# Quote — Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

> Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. How about the time you gave a large contribution to the Red Cross? Yes, that is no exception to the rule. You gave the Red Cross the donation because you wanted to lend a helping hand; you wanted to do a beautiful, unselfish, divine act.

- Author: [Dale Carnegie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie.md)
- Book: [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people.md)
- Page: 40
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie#How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People_(1936)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/every-act-you

## More from this book

> The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together.

p. 73 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/the-average-person.md)

> A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.

p. 143 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/a-drop-of-honey.md)

> Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.

p. 61 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dale-carnegie/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/looking-at-the.md)