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Summary: Great book to read
Review: What a great book. I wish read this 20 years ago. Will improve social skill big time. First have is very detail and the second have getting compact. Well worth reading.
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Summary: My all time favourite book.
Review: I bought this book a long time back and since have kept it with me and browsed over it many times.
I believe in it, and have used the principles to land a job, get work done, help people and have a better relationship with friedns, family and colleagues at work. I would suggest everyone read this book. It should be made compulsory reading in all schools and colleges.
I gave this book as a graduation gift to 3 friends and all of them loved it. All their copies have been heavily used and they have profited from it.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read
Review: ...Anything you read can be used for "evil" whether it be "The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People" (hope Saddam Hussein doesn't read this one, or else we'll really be in trouble) or "Built to Last" (just imagine what would have happened if John Gotti read this one). This is one of the best books I have ever read (and reread). If you read it there is no doubt you will be a better and more successful person.
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Summary: Perfect gift for teen heading to college
Review: If you don't know the title, where have you been? Just kidding. This is the standard classic that aids in building successful social skills. Today, we're picking one up as a gift for a teen, also giving him a copy of sci-fi novel by Tempesta-- Damsel In the Rough - by no means a Martha Stewart Classic. A body has to laugh sometime.
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Summary: I wish read this book 20 years ago.
Review: Very good book to read. I wish read it 20 years ago. First half of this book is really good, but second half is kind of short. Some chapters required more detail.
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Summary: Let Carnegie Influence You
Review: From an era when 'self-help' books had genuine depth, Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" influenced the world. No book in the self-help category matters more than this one. Learning to relate to people in the ways Carnegie instructs will help you personally as well as professionally. This book is a classic because Carnegie says timeless truths in timeles ways. I fully recommend "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
by Dale Carnegie. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: Amazing book....makes everything so clear and so simple.
Review: I first read Tim Sanders, "Love is the Killer App", and from that book I heard about this one. I picked it up and finished it the same day, but still go back and look at it. The book spells out how to interact with people beautifully. Many of the techniques he mentions I have already been doing (with good success), but adds so much more and clearly explains what to do, how to do it, and with vivid examples. I find his examples of how to handle a situation fascinating and it gets you sucked in. He explains how to handle working with co-workers, or interacting with management, or how to handle customers, and even how to interact with new people. My only pessimistic comment about the book, and someone mentioned this in another review, is, is he spelling out sincerity or how to make things go your way no matter what? What I mean is a lot of what he says seems very manipulative. It doesn't seem like honesty or ethics matter at all. He doesn't stress compassion for how you act with people, but rather just says do this, it works. However, I don't think he meant that at all. It is important to understand that however you act with people or handle a situation needs to be with compassion and sincerity (unless are you haggling for a $200 million dollar contract and you... on the line). I would recommend reading this, but also Tim Sanders, "Love is the Killer App". Sanders books complements this book beautifully. Nontheless, this is a must read. Enjoy
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Summary: I wish read this book 20 years ago.
Review: Very good book to read. I wish did read it at age 12. Already tried some tools, works very well. I will read it again. First half is great. Some chapters are very short and not enough information. That's why I give it four star.
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Summary: Insincere appreciation or sincere manipulation?
Review: This book could easily be re-titled "How to Manipulate People and Act Phony," or perhaps, "The True Selfishness of the Human Ego and How to Harness to it for Your Own Personal Gain." I first found this book when I was 19 and thought, "Wow, I'll read this book and finally everyone will recognize me as the good-hearted person I am." The "Gandhian" in me still thought so naïve an objective was possible. This book was written in 1930s vernacular for a more wide-eyed and trusting America, complete with plenty Norman Rockwellesque "good golly gee" anecdotes where everything works out happily in the end. At times such a writing style can be endearing, in some places, particularly in the chapter where the author uses the resolution of a labor strike as illustration of the effectiveness of his principles, it can verge on offensive. It is somewhat amazing that this book has not been re-written completely because, despite the resent "revision," the style and format remains quite dated and stale. If not for the CD recordings I would have never made it through, as the inflection and dramatization of the narrator brings it a bit more to life. I also bought and read an old participant handbook from the Carnegie seminar as well as the biography, "Dale Carnegie: The Man Who Influenced Millions." This helped to put this book in the appropriate historical and social context. Though Mr. Carnegie quotes from many people in this book, including the Buddha, and the revised edition even includes a few reflections on the wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr., there really is nothing "transcendent" to be found, and such quotations are often taken garishly out of context. This is not a book about how to deepen relationships or how to broaden our worldview, nor does it teach us how to become genuinely compassionate and remove our prejudices, nor does it aim us in the direction of any kind of true self-realization. Least of all is this a book about putting an end to the futility of looking for happiness outside oneself. This book is about sales. In fact, this book was primarily developed as a text for Mr. Carnegie's class on salesmanship. At the point in American history in which this book was written, there was great need for training and educating in business management. Dale Carnegie stepped into that role and has remained the archetype of corporate (i.e., insincere) niceness ever since. All those clerks, phone solicitors, even used car salesmen, you can thank Mr. Carnegie for having taught them everything they know about hooking the customer by pretending to care. I would not, therefore, suggest anyone use any of these techniques on those they truly love because, like I said, this is a book about manipulation. The unfortunate thing about this book is that it works. This manipulation is so effective and so brilliantly obvious that it is amazing people still "fall" for it after more than 50 years in print. Perhaps the most manipulative bits of advice, also being the most painfully truthful, are: to every person the most beautiful word in any language is their own name; the greatest desire of all people is to feel important; never forget that everyone you meet considers themselves your superior in some way; a person's headache means more to them than the death of a million people in an African famine; when dealing with people we are not dealing with animals of reason, but beings swayed by emotion, bigotry, prejudice, and vanity. The Gandhian in me sees that all of the above-described, obviously selfish, traits are actually the cause of great loneliness and sorrow in this world, and is therefore frustrated that rather than teaching us to overcome these traits Mr. Carnegie simply teaches us how to harness them and use them for our own personal gain. Are we to believe the key to fulfillment is to manipulate others' feelings of lack of fulfillment? The result is simply a reinforcement of selfishness in others and oneself, and perhaps the resulting loneliness, frustration, and isolation. Mr. Carnegie claims that this is not the case and that this book is teaching compassion and seeing things from the other person's perspective, but even I am not that naïve anymore. And that is my main problem with this book: the terribly shallow definition it implies for the word "friend." Is a friend someone you manipulate for the sake for making the sale? Or is a friend someone you can be honest with, even if that honesty means revealing how selfish us human beings can be? I am grateful to Dale Carnegie for helping me realize just how selfish and egotistical people often are (myself included), but I am frustrated with him for implying that manipulating that selfishness is what constitutes a friendship. I refuse to fool myself as to the true nature of this book. I use these techniques consciously when I feel I am at the mercy of people who do not care about me and would rather have me out of their face as soon as possible. But this is not friendship; this is desperation. If I were to fool myself and internalize these techniques and convince myself that this was friendship, I wouldn't know how to have a real honest and loving relationship with anyone - I would live the life of the plastic smile you see on employees in department stores and fast food chains. I use these techniques to influence people when I have to, but I wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who would fall for it.
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Summary: Wish my friends would read this book.
Review: This is a good book for people who are not socially graceful and show favoritism over one friend to another.
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