“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you,” Dale Carnegie, author of the book, How to Win Friends and Influence Other People, was an extremely brilliant and successful man. Even though Dale Carnegie was born into a poor family, he never once stopped working to his fullest capability as a child through his teen years to get every task that was given to him done. This work ethic eventually led him to becoming one of the most successful investors in the twentieth century. All throughout the book is valuable lessons, which all are completely apart of everyday life and can change the way I deal with people, and myself, for the better. …show more content…
He started out selling correspondence courses to ranchers, then started selling different products for a company and he became successful and was a smart with his money and he saved it. He quit sales in 1911 and pursued a career elsewhere. He got the idea to teach public speaking after he became broke working for a production. He started teaching people all over and became extremely well-known and everyone wanted to hear his sessions. He wrote books but his greatest work was How to Win Friends and Influence Other People. The book became a best seller and from being an extremely poor farmer, Carnegie started earning up to five hundred dollars every week, which today would be about twelve thousand dollars a week. He was the pinnacle of someone who did let the poverty he was born into stop him from being successful. He went out and worked his absolute hardest and it completely paid …show more content…
It has been the first time where I have to be on the phone selling something to a complete stranger. Although at times it was nerve-racking and stressful, it has given me hundreds of times to interact with people and see how well I do it. The book really did help my process in dealing with people because I believe I am generally a people person, but reading it brought forth many other areas within interacting with people that I do not often think about. From the first part of the book the main lesson I learned was to give honest and sincere appreciation, and to not criticize or complain. During each phone call I have to be genuine to the person I am talking to. It was difficult because I did not know anything about the person on the line, yet I have to show that I care about them in a way without sounding fake. Also, I realized that I am a critical person and at the beginning when I would call people and see where they are from or what they sounded like, I would immediately make assumptions about them. When it comes to dealing with strangers, especially when selling a product, it is really important to get them to like me, which was Carnegie’s second part of the book. I need to become genuinely interested in the person, about their