CHAPTER 32
Do Your Homework
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
—FRANCIS BACON
Anytime you are getting together with someone, socially or professionally, whom you particularly want to impress, do your homework. Learn what you can about that person before you actually meet. It’s the best way to be charming and interesting to others. As Dale Carnegie once said, “You can make more friends in a day by being interested in others than you could in a year by trying to get them to be interested in you.”
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