Who is Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie (; spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), Lincoln the Unknown (1932), and several other books.One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's behavior towards them.

Biography

Dale Carnegie was born November 24, 1888, on a farm in Maryville, Missouri. He was the second son of farmers James ...
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Dale Carnegie Quotes

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
• The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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