How to Win Friends & Influence People

This book is amazing. It gives you examples of how people have managed different situations successfully and unsuccessfully. It explains the ways to influence people without being false but just being nice. I wish I had listed to this book 20 years ago. I have been captivated. I find myself unconsciously changing my behaviour, what a difference it has made when working with my staff or playing with my children.

Everyone should read this book - parents and children, managers and employees. Excellent and enjoyable.

It is important to say that Old Dale?s book does exactly what it says on the tin and really does work. However,read from the point of view as a work of narrative fiction, this book also functions perfectly well and is hugely enjoyable. It presents as a work of early twentieth century Americana as much as the novels of Scott Fitzgerald or Upton Sinclair and presents a picture of American Society and in particular American corporate life that will be very familiar to anyone who has either worked with or visited the United States. I kept returning time and time again to a mental picture of an American corporate mentor of mine ? comfortable in his late middle age with all the assumptions of middle class life and, no doubt, many of its frailities?and heard his voice speaking from within these pages. ?How to win friends? informs so much of American Literature ? John Updike and Richard Yates are two particular but not exclusive examples ? so the book also becomes a valuable work of reference to the modern American psyche and the cultural revolution that has and is taking place in that great country.

...but after reading this book I realise that most of my failings in business and personal life are easily-explained. Within a week I have already seen positive changes in my relationships with people. It can't be this easy can it?

This is one of those books that you will hear people talking about and this is also one of those books that it took me 30 years to get round to reading. I wish that I had done so earlier. This book has greatly improved my outlook on life and I can handle situations in a far slicker and more helpful way than before. excellent book, I would recommend it to everyone.

I was attracted to the book as I wanted a better understanding of people for my job. I certainly didn't expect that it would change my whole approach to relationships, both Business and personal. Using the techniques suggested I have saved money, received more praise/thanks than I used to, improved both work and personal relationships, and have reduced my own frustration & stress. If people baffle you, or you don't get what you want from them - then read this book.

This book is inspirational and still as amazingly relevant today as when it was written about 80 years ago!

People skills are understated and this book helps you realise how important they really are.

You must listen to this book!

Brilliant book with loads of useful hints and good illustrated examples. Very well read as well.

This book should be used in schools to show people how to deal with each other. Absolutely fantastic!

It's a classic. I was surprised how enjoyable I found this book. I bought it to see what all the fuss was about rather than with any intention to change what I did, but have tried the suggestions and been impressed with the results.
It's well-written, in a conversational style and the reader is excellent. It collects together many stories of how people have had success in winning friends and influencing people, so it's not a coldly scientific work. The suggestions are easy to apply and sound simple (such as trying to make the other person feel important in some way), but I've used them to good effect to improve personal relationships in my personal and professional life.
It's a pleasure to listen to and discuss with friends as a work of literature- the classic self-help book.