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Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was an American writer and lecturer
and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement,
salesmanship,corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills.
He was born in an impoverished family in Maryville, Missouri.
Carnegie harbored a strong love and passion for public speaking
from a very early age and was very proactive in debate in high
school. He went to the Warrensburg State Teachers College and
later onwards became a salesman for Armour and Company in
Nebraska. He also moved to New York in the pursuit of a career in
acting and gave classes in public speaking at the Young Men's
Christian Association.
During the early 1930's, he was renowned and very famous for
his books and a radio program. When How to Win Friends and
Influence People was published in 1930. It became an instant
success and subsequently became one of the biggest bestsellers of
all time. It sold more than 10 million copies in many different
languages. He also began work as a newspaper columnist andformed the Dave Carnegie Institute for Effective Speaking and
Human Relations, with several branches globally.
Carnegie loved teaching others to climb the pillars of success.
His valuable and tested advice was used in many domains and has
been the inspiration of many famous people's success. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other
people's behavior by changing one's reaction to them.
The most famous and cited maxims in the book are "Believe that you will
succeed, and you will," and "Learn to love, respect and enjoy