How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends & Influence People can help you achieve these important goals:
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Get out of a mental rut, think new thoughts, acquire new visions, discover new ambitions;
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Make friends easily and quickly;
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Increase your popularity;
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Win people to your way of thinking;
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Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done;
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Handle complaints, avoid arguments;
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Become a better speaker and more entertaining conversationalist
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Dale Carnegie's teachings and human relations principles form part of the core methodology of the Dale Carnegie soft skills and professional development training courses.
Summary of How to Win Friends and Influence People
Become a friendlier person
Techniques in Handling People
1. Don't criticize, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest, sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
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Six Ways to Make People Like You
1.Become genuinely interested in other people.
2. Smile.
3. Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
6. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.
"To be interesting, be interested."
- Dale Carnegie
"People support a world they helped create."
- Dale Carnegie
Win People to Your Way of Thinking
1. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
2. Show respect for the other person's opinion. Never say, "you're wrong."
3. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
4. Begin in a friendly way.
5. Get the other person saying, "yes, yes" immediately.
6. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
7. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.
8. Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.
9. Be sympathetic with the other person';s ideas and desires.
10. Appeal to the nobler motives.
11. Dramatize your ideas.
12. Throw down a challenge.
The iconic bestseller.
Dale Carnegie's book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is the world's benchmark business and personal development book, consistently listed in top business must-read lists and a staple of business curriculum around the world. With over 30 million copies sold worldwide since it was published in 1936, it's one of the most groundbreaking and ageless bestsellers and the rock-solid, time-tested advice has helped countless people to work, communicate and manage better.
"When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."
- Dale Carnegie
"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
- Dale Carnegie
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