Reading rank 472
How to Win Friends and Influence People
, subject: Practical interpersonal communication and influence, 1936
Carnegie lays out a system for social interaction, and Warren Buffett used it to overcome his early social difficulty.
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About the book
First published in October 1936, the book sets out six ways to make people like you, twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking and nine ways to change people without arousing resentment. Its publisher's description says it has sold more than 30 million copies.
Why read it
Best if You struggle socially and want a concrete system to practice rather than hoping social ease will come on its own.
Key themes
- Social ease can come from a method
- Judged by whether it works
Evidence and original sources
Source: official Founders episode — #100
This record is supported by 1 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Warren Buffett (The Snowball) — David explains that Warren Buffett used Dale Carnegie's system from How to Win Friends and Influence People to overcome early social difficulty and found that the system worked in practice.