How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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• brilliant
• easy to read
• funny
• based on experience

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The book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie is a really inspiring and easy to read book. He describes the patterns how people like to be approached and how you should approach them with great and beautiful real life stories.

I had a lot of “a-ha” moments and a lot of things he managed to describe I could find in my own work and private life. I love books where the author describes things by using stories about their own experience, which makes it for me that much easier to understand and “feel” their situation.

I love the way how Dale Carnegie makes us feel and understand what he wants to share with us. That’s why I bought his second book “How to stop worrying and start living” a couple of days ago and will read it as soon as I’m done with what ever I’m reading now – which btw is “Drive:The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel Pink.

Who should read this book?

Not only people who have to do with other people during work should feel encouraged to read this book. In my opinion each and every person should read it, just to learn a little bit more about human behaviour and how we react to people approaching us.

[ecko_quote source=”Dale Carnegie”]Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.[/ecko_quote]

My personal thoughts:

[ecko_contrast][ecko_quote source=”Dale Carnegie”]It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.[/ecko_quote][/ecko_contrast]

[ecko_quote source=”Dale Carnegie”]You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.[/ecko_quote]

[ecko_contrast][ecko_quote source=”Dale Carnegie”]Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.[/ecko_quote][/ecko_contrast]

[ecko_quote source=”Dale Carnegie”]Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.[/ecko_quote]