How to Win Friends and Influence People is a 1936 self-help book written by Dale Carnegie, an American writer, lecturer and developer of courses. Over 30 million copies of this book have been sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling classics of all time. The investment guru Warren Buffett took the Dale Carnegie course "How to Win Friends and Influence People" when he was young, and to this day has the diploma in his office.
8 Things This Amazing Book Will Help You Achieve
• 1. Get out of a mental rut, think new thoughts, acquire new visions, discover new ambitions.
• 2. Make friends quickly and easily.
• 3. Increase your popularity.
• 4. Win people to your way of thinking.
• 5. Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done.
• 6. Handle complaints, avoid arguments, keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant.
• 7. Become a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist.
• 8. Arouse enthusiasm among your colleagues.
This book has done all these things for more than 30 million readers in over thirty-six languages.
Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), Lincoln the Unknown (1932), and several other books.
One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's behavior towards them.