How To Win Friends And Influence People

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Harper Collins, Jan 28, 2014 - Self-Help - 288 pages

With an enduring grasp of human nature, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People teaches his readers how to handle people without letting them feel manipulated, how to make people feel important without inspiring resentment, how win people over to your point of view without causing offence, and how to make a friend out of just about anyone.

Published in 1937, Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, was originally written as a companion book to his lectures on how to be a good salesperson. However, what began as a basic sales primer, quickly exploded into an overnight success, eventually selling more than 15 million copies worldwide, and pioneering an entire genre of self-help and personal success books.

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Contents

Chapter 1If You Want to Gather Honey Dont Kick Over
Chapter 2The Big Secret of Dealing with People
Chapter 3He Who Can Do This Has the Whole World with
NINE SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK
Chapter 2A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression
Chapter 4An Easy Way to Become a Good Conversationalist
Chapter 6How to Make People Like You Instantly
PART THREE TWELVE WAYS TO WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING
Chapter 9What Everybody Wants
Chapter 10An Appeal That Everybody Likes
Chapter 11The Movies Do It Radio Does It Why Dont You Do
Chapter 12When Nothing Else Works Try This
IN A NUTSHELL
PART FOUR NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT GIVING OFFENSE OR AROUSING RESENTMENT
Chapter 1If You Must Find Fault This Is the Way to Begin
Chapter 2How to Criticizeand Not Be Hated for

Chapter 1You Cant Win an Argument
Chapter 2A Sure Way of Making Enemiesand How to Avoid
Chapter 3If Youre Wrong Admit
Chapter 4The High Road to a Mans Reason
Chapter 5The Secret of Socrates
Chapter 6The Safety Valve in Handling Complaints
Chapter 7How to Get Cooperation
Chapter 8A Formula That Will Work Wonders for
Chapter 3Talk About Your Own Mistakes First
Chapter 4No One Likes to Take Orders
Chapter 5Let the Other Man Save Face
Chapter 6How to Spur Men On to Success
Chapter 7Give the Dog a Good Name
Chapter 8Make the Fault Seem Easy to Correct
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DALE CARNEGIE was a bestselling author, lecturer, actor and the founder of the Dale Carnegie Institute. The son of a farmer, Carnegie was born in 1888 in Maryville, Missouri. After graduating from teachers’ college, he worked as a salesman and an actor before he started teaching public speaking courses in New York City. His lectures became the basis for How to Win Friends and Influence People, which has been published in over thirty languages. Carnegie died of Hodgkin’s disease in 1955.

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