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The Value of Smile at Christmas – Dale Carnegie

The Value of Smile at Christmas is an an excerpt from the book “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie.

It costs nothing but creates much.

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give.

It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

None are so rich that they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits.

It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and Nature’s best antidote for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given away.

And if, in the last-minute rush of Christmas buying, some of our salespeople should be too tired to give you a smile, may we ask that you leave one of yours?

For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give!

The Value of Smile at Christmas