Dale Carnegie

General Press

'How to Win Friends and Influence People' is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. Just after publishing, it 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. With an enduring grasp of human nature, it 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. Millions of people around the world have improved their lives based on the teachings of Dale Carnegie. This classic book will turn your relationships around and improve your interactions with everyone in your life. (How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, 9788180320217)

How to Win Friends and Influence People

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A misleading title as it sounds nefarious but this book is really just a collection of stories and examples that show how being a good person - that is, authentically caring about other people - leads to strong and meaningful relationships. All of this amounts to the accumulation of friends and influence, but you don't get the latter w/o the former.

Despite being written generations ago, it still holds up as a very powerful book for improving your social life.

Rafael Matsumoto

The overall ideas are really good and still relevant to these days, however the book follows that pattern of main concept followed by a bunch of examples, so I you definitely recommend that you listen to it 40/50% faster or try to speed read.

Anton

The book is great for someone who is interested in influencing people and maybe making friends (in that order).

Good points, gets repetitive sometimes but I think it reinforces the key concepts.

Simone Felisati

Farah Aisha Shabrina

the most repeated sentence in the book: “be hearty in your approbation and be lavish in your praise” will always be engraved in my mind

Benedict Neo

Great 

Pretty good book, but discontinued reading. The author was all about being nice everytime which doesn't make sense to me.

Dale Carnegie is a very interesting man. He is not only a writer but also a lecturer who has spent a good time of his years teaching people about public speaking, behavior, making corporate training, and developing communication skills. He like many other writers came from a poor family in Missouri and had to grind his way out of poverty. We can safely say that he did more than that. Dale not only did teach thousands of people, companies, and small businesses during his time, but he keeps teaching the modern generations with his most precious heritage to the world - his books. How The Book changed me Dale is having a very interesting way to write. The book overall was like an academic masterpiece in 275 pages without a bibliography (inserts academic joke, hehe). He would make a statement and straight away shoot us with arguments and proof. His examples can put one in a “wow” state because most of them are including some famous people like Lincoln and General Álvaro Obregón and many other people that are not part of the living anymore but Dale was alive during their lifetime and in some cases, he was there witnessing what he was writing about….  Read the full review here: 

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Desislava Yanakieva

Dale Carnegie is a very interesting man. He is not only a writer but also a lecturer who has spent a good time of his years teaching people about public speaking, behavior, making corporate training, and developing communication skills. He like many other writers came from a poor family in Missouri and had to grind his way out of poverty. We can safely say that he did more than that. Dale not only did teach thousands of people, companies, and small businesses during his time, but he keeps teaching the modern generations with his most precious heritage to the world - his books. How The Book changed me Dale is having a very interesting way to write. The book overall was like an academic masterpiece in 275 pages without a bibliography (inserts academic joke, hehe). He would make a statement and straight away shoot us with arguments and proof. His examples can put one in a “wow” state because most of them are including some famous people like Lincoln and General Álvaro Obregón and many other people that are not part of the living anymore but Dale was alive during their lifetime and in some cases, he was there witnessing what he was writing about….  Read the full review here: https://cloudwrites.com/book-review-how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-by-dale-carnegie/

I thought that this book was good when I read it 

Lexy 

Cristian Garcia

Hace años que quería leer este libro. Lo había postergado por mucho tiempo pero jamás lo olvidé. La verdad es que me encantó. Me di cuenta que tengo muchos de los rasgos positivos que describe el autor y otros los puse en práctica el mismo día que los leí. Este libro es atemporal, esta lleno de valores y técnicas para influir de manera positiva en las personas a tu alrededor. Me alegro que me di el tiempo de leerlo y absorberlo.

Danial Imran 

The title 'Win Friends' is apt. This book details too much about agreeing with people, or just generally being agreeable. I'm not saying that the methods don't work (they do) but it debases you into a people pleaser. I would suggest reading Voss' Never Split The Difference, or Emily Allison's Rapport on this topic. 

Volkan Yorulmaz

This is a must-read! Here is the reason:

https://myhighlightz.blogspot.com/201...

And a great story to unsmoke:

https://unsmokeyourworld.blogspot.com...

Bryan Maniotakis

Lots of great advice in here, the problem is breaking habits and remembering to use them on a day to day basis

Andres Leon

Too much story for me. Just skip to the end of each section for the main points of the book. Good if you want to read great anecdotes though.

Hooman Askari

One of those books everyone has to read in their lives.

Magdalene Lim

Chock-full of stuff I highlighted, this was an easy, interesting read. Just like any other "social psych" book, many of the principles/lessons are obvious but it's not till you see it on paper that you realise it's something that you should be doing because it makes so much sense.

I wish I had read it earlier. Who knows how useful it would have been in.. life? Haha. But anyways, better late than never and I'm glad to have read it only now because then I can match it to the people and examples I see at work. There is more context and I better appreciate the examples he has listed. In any case, it's one of those books worth a re-read every once in a while.

Tomasz

Jakkolwiek obecny rynek książek samopomocowych, motywacyjnych czy najrozmaitszych poradników sprawia, że na książki tego typu patrzy się z wielkim dystansem, tym lepiej poszukać starszych pozycji.
Sięgnąłem po książkę Carnegiego dzięki poleceniu Mirosława Zelenta z Pasji Informatyki - i zgadzam się! - pozycja ta zawiera naprawdę konkretne porady, które naprawdę działają!
Całość okraszona przykładami osób, które "zdobyły przyjaciół i zjednały sobie ludzi". Do tego dochodzi jeszcze przyjemność z czytania o ludziach z poprzedniej epoki - i choć dziś już takich ludzi nie ma, porady z książki są uniwersalne i sprawdzą się - dosłownie - także dziś. Książka wspaniale wydana - w kieszonkowej formie. Pomijam już fakt, że książkę samą w sobie czyta się świetnie.
Sięgnę z pewnością po pozostałe książki Carnegiego.

Ivaylo Durmonski

Social dynamics are a major factor for your stay here, on the planet. Unfortunately, there aren't many good books, or courses, about handling people. Thankfully, we have - How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie book is a manual for interacting with people. It's a must read if you want to blend it, influence, negotiate with the fellow humans. Read my full review here: https://corehustle.com/how-to-win-fri...

Pallavi Tirkey

Could garner a lot of wise ways to handle people unfortunately, the book repeats some points but it's still recommended reads for anyone in business. Basic takeaway - "the only way to influence people is to talk in the terms of what other person wants."

Darian

I got my copy of this book through a book exchange in college and just now got around to reading it. It was fine, a bit long winded for what it was saying at points and the principles are a little straightforward/common sense in nature but I’ve read worse.

Frederik Trojaborg Grunwald Julian

Probably the best book I have ever read! So much wisdom packed into one book. I recommend that everyone reads it!

How to Win Friends and Influence People

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