How To Win Friends And Influence People

ON MAY 7, 1931, the most sensational manhunt New York City had ever known had come to its climax. After we ...

– one that would do nobody any harm.’ Crowley was sentenced to the electric chair. When he arrived at the d ...

makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hu ...

course not. With tears in his eyes, Taft said: ‘I don’t see how I could have done any differently fro ...

Taft, will say: ‘I don’t see how I could have done any differently from what I have.’ On the morning ...

almost never criticised anybody for anything. Time after time, during the Civil War, Lincoln put a new genera ...

My dear General, I do not believe you appreciate the magnitude of the misfortune involved in Lee’s escape. He ...

you get it.’ On another occasion he wrote to an editor about a proofreader’s attempts to ‘improve my sp ...

handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? ‘I will speak ...

Oddly enough, college periodicals have used it, and high-school magazines. Sometimes a litt ...

Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear ...

THERE IS ONLY one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of ...

Almost all these wants are usually gratified – all except one. But there is one longing – almost as deep, ...

engaging in criminal activities. The average young criminal, according to E.P. Mulrooney, onetime police commiss ...

The writer Mary Roberts Rinehart once told me of a bright, vigorous young woman who became an invalid in ...

‘And as for children, she imagines now that she has had a new child every night. Each time I call on ...

That is what Schwab did. But what do average people do? The exact opposite. If they don’t ...

programme. She asked her husband to help her by listing six things he believed she could do to help her become ...

seldom do we nourish their self-esteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, ...

No! No! No! I am not suggesting flattery! Far from it. I’m talking about a new way of life. Let me repeat. I am ...