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How to Win Friends and Influence People

  • 4.3 (275 ratings) ·
  • 8,062 Want to read
  • 734 Currently reading
  • 328 Have read

12 things this book will do for you:

  1. Get you out of a mental rut, give you new thoughts, new visions, new ambitions.
  2. Enable you to make friends quickly and easily.
  3. Increase your popularity.
  4. Help you to win people to your way of thinking.
  5. Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done.
  6. Enable you to win new clients, new customers.
  7. Increase your earning power.
  8. Make you a better salesman, a better executive.
  9. Help you to handle complaints, avoid arguments, keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant.
  10. Make you a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist.
  11. Make the principles of psychology easy for you to apply in your daily contacts.
  12. Help you to arouse enthusiasm among your associates.

The cost? Just 2s. 6d.

Publish Date
Publisher
World's Work
Language
English
Pages
258

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How to Win Friends and Influence People
2020, Orange books International
in English
Cover of: How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
2019, Pushpak Publications
in English
Cover of: How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
2018, Collins
in English
Cover of: 人性的弱點
人性的弱點
2016, Fei fan chu ban
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: How to win friends and influence people
How to win friends and influence people
2015, Magdalene Press
in English
Cover of: 人性的弱点
人性的弱点: 如何影响他人并赢得认同
2013, Zhongguo hua qiao chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
Cover of: How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
2011
in Chinese
Cover of: 人性的弱点
人性的弱点: How to win friends and influence people
2001, Jiang xi ren min chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
Cover of: Comment se faire des amis et influencer les autres
Comment se faire des amis et influencer les autres
1993, Quebecor
in French - Nouv. ed. / etablie par Dorothy Carnegie.
Cover of: How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
1953, World's Work
Paperback in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction: A Short-Cut to Distinction, by Lowell Thomas
Page 11
Preface: How This Book Was Written and Why, by Dale Carnegie
Page 23
Part One. Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
Chapter 1. “If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive”
Page 31
Chapter 2. The Big Secret of Dealing with People
Page 41
Chapter 3. “He Who Can Do This Has the Whole World with Him - He Who Cannot Walks a Lonely Way”
Page 52
Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book
Page 67
Part Two. Six Ways to Make People Like You
Chapter 1. Do This and You'll Be Welcome Anywhere
Page 72
Chapter 2. A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression
Page 82
Chapter 3. If You Don't Do This, You Are Headed for Trouble
Page 89
Chapter 4. An Easy Way to Become a Good Conversationalist
Page 96
Chapter 5. How to Interest People
Page 105
Chapter 6. How to Make People Like You Instantly
Page 108
In a Nutshell
Page 121
Part Three. Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
Chapter 1. You Can't Win an Argument
Page 122
Chapter 2. A Sure Way of Making Enemies and How to Avoid It
Page 128
Chapter 3. If You're Wrong, Admit It
Page 138
Chapter 4. The High Road to a Man's Reason
Page 144
Chapter 5. The Secret of Socrates
Page 154
Chapter 6. The Safety Valve in Handling Complaints
Page 159
Chapter 7. How to Get Co-Operation
Page 164
Chapter 8. A Formula That Will Work Wonders for You
Page 170
Chapter 9. What Everybody Wants
Page 174
Chapter 10. An Appeal That Everybody Likes
Page 180
Chapter 11. The Movies Do It. Radio Does It. Why Don't You Do It?
Page 185
Chapter 12. When Nothing Else Works, Try This
Page 188
In a Nutshell
Page 192
Part Four. Nine Ways to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
Chapter 1. If You Must Find Fault, This Is the Way to Begin
Page 193
Chapter 2. How to Criticize and Not Be Hated for It
Page 198
Chapter 3. Talk About Your Own Mistakes First
Page 199
Chapter 4. No One _Likes_ to Take Orders
Page 202
Chapter 5. Let the Other Man Save His Face
Page 203
Chapter 6. How to Spur Men on to Success
Page 206
Chapter 7. Give the Dog a Good Name
Page 210
Chapter 8. Make the Fault Seem Easy to Correct
Page 213
Chapter 9. Making People Glad to Do What you Want
Page 215
In a Nutshell
Page 219
Part Five. Letters That Produced Miraculous Results
Page 220
Part Six. Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier
Chapter 1. How to Dig Your Marital Grave in the Quickest Possible Way
Page 229
Chapter 2. Love and Let Live
Page 235
Chapter 3. Do This and You'll Be Looking Up the Time-Tables to Reno
Page 237
Chapter 4. A Quick Way to Make Everybody Happy
Page 241
Chapter 5. They Mean So Much to a Woman
Page 244
Chapter 6. If You Want to Be Happy, Don't Neglect This One
Page 246
Chapter 7. Don't Be a “Marriage Illiterate”
Page 249
In a Nutshell
Page 254

Edition Notes

Series
A Cedar Book, No. 6

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
258

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL47707094M
Internet Archive
bwb_KS-365-216
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B001IQGOLY
Better World Books
BWBM53456965

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Available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Dale Carnegie's enduring classic, the inspirational personal development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success. One of the top-selling books of all time, "How to Win Friends & Influence People" has sold more than 15 million copies in all its editions.

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