Dale Carnegie: Your Guaranteed Self-Helper
24th November marks the birth anniversary of Dale Carnegie, the man who thought many of us How To Win Friends and Influence People. A book which changed millions of relationships and business.
Dale Carnegie’s Journey
Carnegie was born to a poor farmer. He started his job by selling soap, bacon and later got opportunities to work as a traveling salesman for the International Correspondence Schools. Later, he went up to become an actor, not pleased by the experience, Carnegie decided to quit the job. There was a stage in his life when he was unemployed and was totally broken. This phase of life led him to the realization of his people skills that made him a successful salesman. He began teaching at the night classes where it went on to become an immediate success. Within 2 years his classes became so successful that he decided to start his own institution and that is how Dale Carnegie Institute was founded. And, rest of his story, we know from his books. His book “How To Win Friends and Influence People” still remains one of the best sellers of all time with over 6 million sold copies.
5 Quotes From Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
“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.”
“All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”
“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie Popular Books
What makes Dale Carnegie’s books special is his way of conveying message to the readers with real life examples and the tips and the techniques he describes are sure tested and well resulted ones. His books serve as a great help, especially for those who know to extract from it.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
This book is a super guide with tips and techniques about improving conversational skills, gaining new clients, making friends quickly, and changing the way people think.
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
The books talks on how one can proceed to learn keeping worry away. It tells how to live the life to its best by subtracting worries to focus on everyday joy of life.
How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job
A self-help book that motivates you to perform to the best of your ability and helps you achieve the perfect balance in your life.
How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie explains how to speak to a large group with confidence, how to enjoy speaking to a gathering, how to use the moment to influence people, how to develop self-confidence. He explains methods on how to become a more effective speaker, and capture an audience’s interest.
This book contains several practical advice for people to discover the leader within themselves. The main theme of the book is to teach every person to be a leader by discovering the leadership traits they possess.
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Beautiful quotes Vidhyashree … loved the post :)
Thank you Kokila :)
Nice post Vidyashree :) Dale Carnegie is a big name as far writing and self help topics are concerned. I though did not read him much but I have gone through many articles on him and his writing. Frankly speaking it was his impact only why I started writing on self help on my blogs….
Thank you, Alok. That’s wonderful to know that Dale Carnegie was an inspiration for you to come up with self-improvement topics. Good going Alok :)