How To Win Friends And Influence People By Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie was an American author who was known for his lessons on professionalism and self-improvement. Born in 1888, he lived a great life producing and writing many lessons and books. On of the famous books he wrote is How to Win Friends and Influence People which was written in 1936. This book teaches the reader just that. With this book the reader will know how to make more friends, become more popular, better their skills in influencing people, and many more useful skills in both social and professional environments. For this book report, I am covering part one. The first part explains three basic principles on how to win friends and influence people. These three principles are separate from the rest because they involve judgments to another person and from another person and how to avoid them. The first chapter Dale Carnegie named “If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive.” I love this quote because it is very relevant to today’s society. Everyone is always out to get another person but doesn’t accept it when someone else is out to get them. Carnegie’s title is spot on. The meaning? If you want to get something from someone, as in “collect honey,” don’t stir up the feeling of the

I do agree with the statement, but I don’t believe this is acceptable. People naturally don’t do anything unless they are given something in return, or they legitimately want to. One way to make someone want to do something for you is to give them sincere appreciation for it. Whether that appreciation be through something in return or just the appreciation itself. No one wants to just do something without a return. So, you must influence them with a bribe of some