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Practice appreciation with honest, personalized compliments. People thrive on compliments--whether two or twenty, nine or ninety, a person craves praise.

Pay twice as much and buy half as many. Commit this answer to memory.

Take the initiative in building friendships. Introduce yourself to others at every opportunity. Make sure you get the other person's name straight, and make certain he gets your name straight too. Drop a personal note to your new friends you want to get to know better.

Remember, ideas alone won't bring success. Ideas have value only when you act upon them.

Resolve to put your ideas in saleable form. An idea written or in some sort of picture or diagram form has many times more selling power than the idea presented only in oral form.

The best vaccine against health excusitis consists of these four doses: 1. Refuse to talk about your health. The more you talk about an ailment, even the common cold, the worse it seems to get. Talking about bad health is like putting fertilizer on weeds. Besides, talking about your health is a bad habit. It bores people. It makes one appear self-centered and old-maidish. Success-minded people defeat the natural tendency to talk about their "bad" health. One may (and let me emphasize the word may) get a little sympathy, but one doesn't get respect and loyalty by being a chronic complainer.

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