Eszter reviewed How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Interesting book
4 stars
I learnt a lot about dealing with people from this book. Still, many principles were quite repetitive.
236 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2015 by Magdalene Press.
The best-selling guide to interpersonal relationships provides suggestions for successfully dealing with people both in social and business situations. You can go after the job you want and get it! You can take the job you have and improve it! You can take any situation you're in and make it work for you! For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help readers achieve their maximum potential in the complex and competitive 90s! Learn: The six ways to make people like you. The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking. The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment and much, much more! You can go after the job you want ... and get it! You …
The best-selling guide to interpersonal relationships provides suggestions for successfully dealing with people both in social and business situations. You can go after the job you want and get it! You can take the job you have and improve it! You can take any situation you're in and make it work for you! For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help readers achieve their maximum potential in the complex and competitive 90s! Learn: The six ways to make people like you. The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking. The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment and much, much more! You can go after the job you want ... and get it! You can take the job you have and improve it! You can take any situation you're in and make it work for "you!" For over 50 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help readers achieve their maximum potential in the complex and competitive 90s! Learn: The six ways to make people like you. The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking. The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment and much, much more!
I learnt a lot about dealing with people from this book. Still, many principles were quite repetitive.
I understand that this book was written in an entirely different period all-together, however, the pace following each point is far too slowed. Carnegie tells multiple stories for every argument he makes in relation to the human psyche and these all help to sell said arguments but also slow the book's overall pace down as you already know what the outcome of each story will be. Definitely some fascinating arguments and, given how short it is, I would absolutely recommend people to read How to Win Friends and Influence People but it is slow.
As the book went on, it became more of a chore to read. There are a lot of good ideas in the book, but I feel as though there are too many similar examples that have the same results and very few will stick with me.