How to Win Friends and Influence People
Revisit a timeless and enduring exploration of relationships and human connection
How to Win Friends and Influence People, one of the bestselling self-help books ever written, offers an enduring and insightful account of human nature that promises to improve your ability to relate to those around you. It provides grounded and straightforward techniques for being more persuasive and relatable, helping you move people toward your point of view without being abrasive.
This Capstone Classic edition of the celebrated book by Dale Carnegie comes with a brand-new introduction by self-help scholar Tom Butler-Bowdon and serves as an ideal entry point to the work for readers who have never read it, as well as those who would like to revisit its timeless lessons. You’ll discover:
- Simple, easy-to-implement strategies for persuasion and connection in a wide variety of personal and professional settings
- Tips on how to cultivate and enjoy genuine interest in other people as the key to influence
- Techniques to make others feel important, valued, and comfortable around you
A must-read for everyone interested in improving their relationships with the people most important to them in life and at work, How to Win Friends and Influence People remains one of the most groundbreaking approaches to relationship management and human connection. As human nature does not change, it’s as relevant and critical today as when first released in 1936.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was an American writer and lecturer. Following a career as a salesman he developed courses on public speaking and confidence-building which were given across America. The courses evolved into How To Win Friends and Influence People, which became the bestselling non-fiction title of its time. Carnegie’s insight was that the most successful people in any organisation are not those with the most experience or expertise, but who have the best people skills—and these skills can be learned.
Tom Butler-Bowdon is editor of the Capstone Classics series and has written introductions to Machiavelli’s The Prince, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, and Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Self-Help Classics, 50 Success Classics, and 50 Psychology Classics.