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Book Summary: How To Win Friends And Influence People

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How to Win Friends and Influence People Summary: How to Win Friends and Influence People, written by Dale Carnegie, teaches the reader how to be successful. The book is a timeless classic that tells the secrets about how to improve your way of thinking to gain better friends, employment where you desire, and progress in your current place of work. Since 1936, this book has given advice to many people and as a result, people have become successful in their lifetime. Carnegie’s advice not only helps make people like you more, improve your communication skills, and teaches you how to change others way of thinking, but he also helps the reader to obtain their maximum potential. Evolution of Importance: The evolution of this book’s importance is timeless. It seems like no matter how old this book is, it is just as effective today as it was in the 20th Century. …show more content…

The habits are to be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and to sharpen the saw. Even though this book does not talk a lot about business, there is plenty of great advice that could potentially guide the reader in the right direction in their career. Evolution of Importance: This book is important to business students because it has a lot of useful and important statements within it. This book not only influences the readers, but gives the reader step by step instructions on how to apply the advice to their lives. Another point that can be made about this book is that it shows how to solve both personal and professional problems. I know that the content in this book will be able to help me the way it has helped millions of others to adapt to the skills and changes that helped them to become more successful

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