this book is a great book to read!especially if you want tbe become a leader.

If this guy's so good at winning friends and influencing people, how come he's dead?

This book was life changing for me. As a dad, a husband, a school teacher and a stand-up comedian, I needed these teachings. This book showed me a better way to lead at home and in the class room. It also has helped me deal with club owners, which has already materialized in more money. I now know that a leader doesn't make you follow him, he makes you WANT to follow him. My home, work, and business relationships have improved drastically because of this book. If you follow these teachings from the heart, you will see drastic changes in both your business and personal lives.

i just added this book b/c it sounded interesting and to bump cart price up to free shipping.
its an easy to read book with relevant insight.

This book's point is basically that if you treat people with respect and consideration, they'll be much more likely to like you and to see your viewpoint. It goes on to both outline and detail exactly how do do this, providing many examples. As Mr. Carnegie says, practicing the guidelines spelled out in the book won't mean everyone will like you and agree with you, but they will vastly improve the chances that people will like you and agree with you.

I really liked this book because not only is it dead-on accurate when it comes to improving the rate of positive interaction with people, it's an interesting read. I expected to skim through it and glean off the main points, but I ended up reading it from cover to cover.

As Dale Carnegie writes early in this well-known book, 15% of one's financial success is due to professional knowledge and skill. The remaining 85% is due to personality and the ability to lead people. As a young professional in the early stage of my career, I picked up a copy of How to Win Friends & Influence People in order to hone my human relations.

The book, first published in the 1930s, is certainly dated in the anecdotes it relates about high-powered business executives and politicians. However, the advice is written in a conversational manner that is very easy to read and still relevant to these modern times.

The book distills its wisdom in short chapters focused around specific advice. As you progress through the book, many of the suggestions become recurring themes, reinforcing their emphasis. Much of the advice is simple common sense and common courtesy, but reminders are welcome, as it is all too easy to take these skills for granted.

After reading the book, I recommend printing out a list of the main headings, to be reviewed on a daily or weekly basis. I also suggeste occasionally re-reading the chapters that pertain to specific weaknesses you may exhibit, so you can have an increased awareness of them as you seek to improve.

Human relations, in both professional and personal matters, is an essential skill. The is one of the premier books on the subject, and rightfully so.

The book I ordered is not what was delivered. I ordered "How to win friends and influence people". The book I received was "How to win friends and influence people for teenage girls." This not what was shown when I ordered online nor in this review. What a disappointment.

I read this book after it was suggested to me by a peer and thought it was great. While the book was written a very long time ago, and some of the examples are dated they are still very relevant. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their communication skills.

I consider this a must read book for anyone who wants to improve their career or just how they interact with people. The book is an easy read and filled with interesting stories showing how Dale Carnegie's tactics can work in everyday life. I think it will be a book that I re-read several times.

This book was OK and basic knowledge when dealing with other people. Since I am in sales, I would also recommend Action Selling: How to sell like a professional, even if you think you are one.The Action Selling Sales Training Book Series (Action Selling Book Series)

These would also be great books to read especially when influencing the buyer and following a sustainable selling process.

I forgot this book even existed until I saw a reference in Secrets of the A Game by Logan Edwards. I originally purchased this book to help with meeting women, but I actually got much more out of it. Of course, it DID help out with attracting women, but also gave me a better perspective on interacting at work and with family. I highly recommend it even though some might find it a little dated.

I 'had' to read this book years ago and it didn't 'sink' in much...boy I wish I had paid attention to the sage advice. It is just as relevant today as when it was written. The advice given in this book can really benefit anyone having trouble in any type of relationship.

As with the Dale Carnegie Course itself, lots of BS in my opinion.

Heavens forbid we dare to criticize anyone or give an opinion that may be in opposition to another. Being human means there is black, white and many shades in between. We can agree to disagree, can't we?

I took the stupid course and felt like a cheerleader, having to give applause after each speech. Could not give criticism......the course promised to change people, it doesn't. It is dillusional, it is brainwashing....much like the 12 step programs, it is cultish.

I am sick of this stupid politically correct society and things that support it. This book is one of them. Keep it and all of the other foolish books that try to change you.

Be yourself and enjoy being an individual. To hell with Dale Carnegie.

Great common-sense information but presented in a refreshing way. This book contains valuable information you can use in all your relationships - professional or personal.

How to Win Friends and Influence People is a rare self-improvement book because it was first published way back in 1936, and it still remains one of the most popular books out there. It's basically a handbook for understanding people and relating to them effectively. Some of the advice is absolutely basic and absolutely the types of things we are easy to forgot. By putting behaviors such as refraining from criticism, expressing sincere appreciation, smiling, and remembering names front of mind, it's truly amazing to see how it transforms the way that people respond to you. Anyone will benefit from this book, but those that will benefit the most are otherwise competent individuals who are less than successful because they lack people skills.

The other outstanding book on the topic that I highly recommend is The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book

A lot of it is common sense, but things we tend to forget. Book came in great condition and came quickly.

How reading a single book can change your life!

It's true, when I was 16 years old I (like many others I have now found out since then) read my first book about business. I was drawn to it in a small, old fashioned book shop that's no longer in business. At the time I didn't really know any entrepreneurs or people that ran their own business and I had no mentor to point me in the right direction. The book simply "spoke" to me and I grabbed it and bought it.

Weird stuff. Especially as at the time I was a quiet, shy sort of a guy but in my heart I had a burning ambition - I just didn't realise it yet!

The books name was "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - You must have heard of it I am sure but I hadn't at the time and I would say that `personal development' was not the juggernaut it is today.

It changed my life (for the better) - it gave me confidence in general and more importantly it lit a small flame to start my own business that grew and grew until I did just that two years later at 18 years old.

So what you may say, plenty of people have done that! Well it was quite a shift for me, my father only ever worked for 2 companies his whole life and I was expected to go into a life long job myself in biotechnology or something similar - certainly not to waste my `brains' on cleaning offices and cars!!

The book made me change me outlook on life completely - it made me `think' that I could do anything I put my mind to doing and it also gave the courage to get over my shyness at key moments in my life.

It was the start of life long reading habit (before that I couldn't be bothered with reading and we had very few books in my house as a kid) - even to this day 20+ years later I still go and get a few books on a topic if I want to learn something new.

Also, I have adopted the strength to face all my fears `head-on' since then - when i felt anxious about public speaking I got a few books and tapes and learnt until I was pretty good at it, the same for selling, marketing, finance, hr, technology, programming, manufacturing, teaching, training and on and on.

I became curious about other people and looked for the `good' in them and I feared nothing and no-one. I strived for my goals and I achieved them all.

I am trying to illustrate the power of the written word along with a great (if a little dated) book. Also, I want to reiterate the power of personal development as a whole. Today many run down the idea of personal development and it's many offspring.

Personal development is just like this book - you should read and learn and then apply the principles that you believe in to your life.

You must take action on the one's you believe in and you must apply your own moral standards and integrity to anything you learn from others.

For my part I have read this book many times and bought a few copies as well as the tapes, now CDs, it's time for a refresher for me and i urge you to listen to them if you haven't already.

This book will make you a million bucks just like it has me if you follow the very simple rules for relating to people.

No wonder this is a classic. It is a good reminder of all the things you inherently know, but forget as a normal part of daily life. Immediately upon starting to read it, the way I was dealing with people changed - and business improved quickly! Obviously, a book that should be read over and over. One of the best!

What a great book and so easy to read. A must have for anyone who deals with people and values their relationships with others. Dale Carnegie writes in a way so that you remember what he says and start to apply it right away. He's committed to his reader's success and it's evident in the way he writes.

How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleA book of proven advice that has stood the test of time.

I haven't finished the book yet but it definately motivates you to better yourself and be a more positive person. I recommend this book to anyone.

i havent finished the book but it has influenced me already. nice book well written with many examples

This is the roadmap and field book for developing and maintaining healthy and unselfish interactions with others. What does another person need to hear in the first 30-seconds to get their attention? Why should you see a situation from the other person's point of view and what will happen if you don't? This book is filled with real life vignettes that illustrate the power of having a winning attitude. A must for anyone, and those in sales will love it! You will find yourself reading it again and again and using it as a reference tool.

The author used great examples to help illustrate lessons. Strongly recommend this to everyone who works in an office or with people in general.

This book can, and will change your life if you will only take the time to read it, absorb the material and put it into practice and the great thing is it's so easy! It was only once I read this book that I realized where I was going wrong both in my social and professional interactions with others, come to think of it, I'm amazed anyone liked me at all! The content of this book, even though it was written years and years ago, is just as valid now as it was then because people don't change. Everyone, no matter who they are wants to be respected, to be appreciated, to be listened to, to be accepted, to feel like they matter; these things will never change whether the year is 1936 or 2050 because human nature is what it is.

What is astounding is that so many people just have no clue when it comes to social interaction and conversing with others yet they could easily correct all this with one reading of "How To Win Friends And Influence People". I personally know a girl who is 32 years old and is stunningly beautiful yet she doesn't have a friend in the world, still lives at home with her parents and cannot find a partner no matter how hard she tries because the only person she thinks about is herself, she has no interest in anything else. Her personality, to put it bluntly, is quite frankly repulsive. It is so frustrating for me because I know her life could improve so dramatically if she would only read this book and put the principles into practice but I know that if I suggested she read it, she would be insulted. So many people say that what Carnegie has to say is "obvious". Well if that is the case, why do so few practice these simple principles?

There is a good reason that this book has been around for years and is one of the best selling books of all time- it's because it's true and it works. So many self help books have since tried to rip off Carnegie's principles and regurgitate the material to try and make a fast buck but his book is still the original and by far the best. Buy it, read it, and your life will change for the better- that's a promise.

There is something magical about this book. Dale Carnegie must have been a genius in the 30's. The life lessons taught in "How to Win Friends.." are so rock solid as to change a person's life for good. It has already started to change the course of my life.

From the very first chapter, I started to feel the veil being removed from my eyes. I had been doing so much wrong in relating to people that the common sense - but often over-looked - advice by Carnegie was a huge wake up call.

Just one of the pieces of advice that really woke me up was this: Every single person wants to feel important - and you can provide this by speaking in terms of their interests - not yours. By doing this you feed them their importance and they relay their kindly demeanor and possibly friendship towards you. Simple? Perhaps. But mind-blowingly effective if you hadn't really picked up on it before.

The "yes,yes" approach was clever and effective. Get people to say yes a few times before you ask them a question, to sort of get their systems in an agreeable mood. But if they say "no" to something first, then their systems are in a state of withdrawal and will more likely get them telling you no to your question.

This is merely a tad of the great advice this book gives. If there were ever a definitive "people skills" book. This is it! I have no regrets buying and reading this book, and will in fact read this book again right away, even though I just finished it. It's worth it to really digest the information I would say.

If you or someone you know is shy or unsure of himself or herself around other people, then get this book! There will be no regrets, at least I can't see how their could be. And if you want to further enhance your life, I would recommend picking up "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. These books prove that their is power in reading, as long as you chart the right course of literature.

My mom turned me on to this book,as well as my partner and if you use the examples in your life situations it will make you a better person and have people respond in a positive way!! It's how you say what you want! It is really amazing! I'm glad my mom found this book! We even bought another to give as a gift! Remommemded to all my friends and family!! It's a book you read over and over again and pick up more, and more. I REALLY LOVE THIS BOOK!

Why are the simple things so hard to do? As I look back at my past decisions when dealing with people I laugh because I noticed how many situations I could have approached differently. How to Win Friends & Influence People is a must read for everyone and should be taught to kids when they are young so when they get older they'll be able to deal with people in a more civilized and respectful manner.

I read this book decades ago and it changed my life. It's unbelievable and every human being should read it. As I was surfing Amazon looking for another book, I happen to notice it and had to write a review. I have to tell everybody how great this book is. I couldn't just not tell everyone. The author is brilliant! This book is so motivational that it truly changed my life and made me a better human being. There's a section in there about a father and a son, that I'll never forget - it really moved me. Every father should read that section.

This book is chock full of practical, common sense advice. Want people to like you? Show you like THEM, smile, be honestly happy to see them, remember their names, be interested in them, listen to them, etc. Want to influence them? Don't argue or tell them they are wrong (even if they are), but honestly emphasize where they are right, compliment them, and start with your areas of agreement. Want to be a leader? Ecourage people, praise them, listen to them, ask them questions. Of course, the examples in this book require us to apply honesty and common sense, and if so, this book is quite helpful. Sadly, too many of us fail to heed the advice in these pages. We can all do better, and this book can help us do so.

Everyone should read this book. There is nothing bad that can come from it. The stories contained are interesting and the concepts are completely simple. In fact, nothing taught here was ever mind blowing or surprising. The surprising part was the self reflection it brought and the desire it created in me to want to adapt concepts from this book I previously felt needless. This is the kind of reading I wish I was forced to read growing up and not books about a bunch of stupid kids on an island that go crazy and fight each other.

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a must-read for anyone who desires to put the Golden Rule into everyday use. Through numerous stories and examples, Mr. Carnegie shows how we can truly accomplish the impossible---just by putting others' interests before our own. The book bogs down a little if you try to read through it all at once, so I would recommend breaking it up and just reading a chapter or two at a time. Definitely push through to the end--it's very worth it!

The folks that reviewed this book as a "1 star" might have missed the point of this book. In order for these techniques to work, you must use a common sense approach to each situation.

For instance, one of the techinques described in the book deals with finding a common interest in someone you have just met. Unfortunately, if you use the book without using common sense translation it would go something like this:
"Hi! I like the shirt you are wearing. It's got an image of a racing car on it. I like racecars, too! Now that we have racing cars in common, will you help me with my homework?"
Without a common sense approach, this technique fails.

Another technique decribes how to speak to a shy person. If you are shy, would this approach stated below work on you? I would doubt it.
"Hi. You seem shy so I'm going to converse with you so you can overcome your shyness. So, what's up?"

The techniques in this book will require you to use your head, your common sense and your own personality to be effective.

The overall message is the Golden Rule: Treat others the way you, personally, would want to be treated".

Also, this is not an "all or nothing" way of life. If you use a few of these techniques the way you see fitting within your personality, they will work wonders for you.

I've used these techniques and have had considerable success. I believe it was a worthy investment.

Excellent book. Lots of useful information and real life examples of how to apply the principles in the book.