How to Win Friends and Influence People

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• How to Win Friends and Influence People By Dale Carnegie

  Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People may be the mother of all self-help books, which makes Mr. Carnegie the father of the entire industry. He started his famed classes in 1912, and now, at the close of this century, Dale Carnegie I ... (read full critics)

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  I don't like this book at all. There are purely skills, NO HEART!</p><p>I don't care it is written by Dale Carnegie and also one of the world's most popular books ever written. All Carnegie teached here are skills, how to control your own emotion, how to deal with difficult siutaions, ho ... (continue)

  I don't like this book at all. There are purely skills, NO HEART!</p><p>I don't care it is written by Dale Carnegie and also one of the world's most popular books ever written. All Carnegie teached here are skills, how to control your own emotion, how to deal with difficult siutaions, how to say no, etc.</p><p>It seems like if you remember all these skills and do accordingly, you will be a charming person who have a lot of friends and being very influential.</p><p>This is BULLSHIT. If you are simply ACTING as somebody, I can assure you won't be happy. You could hate yourself one day for being a clown who always wear a mask! You will feel like a FAKE (because you are!).</p><p>Please, if you want to improve your interpersonal skills, work on you HEART. Understand yourselves, love yourselves unconditionally. Then you will be a genuinelly HAPPY people and everybody just want to be with you.

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  Samsara said on Aug 28, 2007 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  An Interesting Look into Human Perception

  The most evident thing in this book is the stereotyping of solutions to problems - and that might not be a stereotype at all as it may actually work when applied. I have yet to test out the skills and principles that I learnt from the book but I have to say that Carnegie got human behaviours and per ... (continue)

  The most evident thing in this book is the stereotyping of solutions to problems - and that might not be a stereotype at all as it may actually work when applied. I have yet to test out the skills and principles that I learnt from the book but I have to say that Carnegie got human behaviours and perception down to a T.

  That is, possibly a decade ago or so. It seems that the methods and teachings in this book is slightly outdated. Some of the techniques seem too transparent to actually work - surely the modern human mind has been littered with too much television, movies and drama to fall for such simple tricks?

  But I suppose that is the ultimate lesson of this book - not to trick or manipulate, but really to change one's behaviour in order to influence others.

  Definitely an interesting read.

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  Trisianna said on Mar 6, 2010 about the School & Library Binding edition | Add your feedback

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  Empathy

  Although many counsels are extremely useful - like smiling before speaking, for instance - the main lesson to learn from this wonderful book is empathy.

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  Pablo Rodríguez Madroño said on Jun 18, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  "A striking combination of public speaking, salesmanship, human relations and applied psychology."

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  Henry Cml said on Mar 5, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  read it during the early years of my teens and the ideas it communicates through clung in my head ever since; inspiring book and a lot of useful socialising skills

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  ac444 said on Jan 18, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• A Classic!

  I have a really old copy of this in paperback, that I bought from a used bookstore. The price is $1.50.

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  Beanevolent1 said on Oct 9, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Audio Cassette
• ISBN-10: 0671033735
• ISBN-13: 9780671033736
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Pub date: Jul 05, 1999
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, School & Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
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