Summary: How to win friends and influence people Dale Carnegie

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This work offers a summary of the book "HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE The AllTime Classic Manual Of People Skills" by Dale Carnegie. How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic, bestselling book that has set the bar for people skills manuals. It should be part of every businessperson's bookshelf, but is also useful for anyone looking to improve relationships. Dale Carnegie posits that no matter your occupation, goals, ambitions of position in a company, dealing with people is your biggest challenge. If you learn how to do so effectively, though, you will reap the rewards in profitability, productivity and morale. It's much better to work together with people, rather than against them. Carnegie explains the best way to criticize people, how best to motivate them and how to become a good conversationalist. He urges the reader to be interested in other people, and strive at all times to make a good first impression. Remember people's names, he suggests, and try to avoid arguments at all costs. How to Win Friends and Influence People is based on a simple you cannot change other people, only change the way you relate to them. Dale Carnegie has laid out a watershed blueprint for how to do that.

Genres: Self Help

35 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Kerli Kirsimaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Old, yet still valid. Bunch of good thoughts and very easy to read and take the ideas with you.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was extremely short! I think I'll have to read the full book, after all.

[Longinus Franklyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice book

[Irais · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of stories, but good overall points

[Jerry Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great review of principles

This is a good quick read to enforce the principles of the book. I would recommend this book even if you didn't read the full book.

[CR DE · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book. Short, concise. Solid content. Got through the book in about 2 hours.

[Jim HeckerIII · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always enjoy reading this

[Shayz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need to memorize this ENTIRE book. This is a forgotten art in 2018.

[Allison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice summary. But, I would have rather read the real book which is what I thought I bought.