American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)
He wrote the manual for talking to people. How to Win Friends and Influence People sold millions because Carnegie reduced charm to a learnable system—and America wanted in.
Born into poverty on a Missouri farm in 1888, Carnegie (who changed the spelling of his name around 1922) built a career teaching self-improvement, salesmanship, and public speaking. His 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People became a runaway bestseller by proposing a simple premise: change how you treat people, and you change how they respond. He followed with How to Stop Worrying and Start Living in 1948 and Lincoln the Unknown in 1932, among other works. He died November 1, 1955, but the Friends book never went out of print—its promise that interpersonal skill is a teachable craf…
Sourced, dated quotes from Dale Carnegie
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.
Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success?
Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
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