"Believe that you will succeed, and you will"
-Dale Carnegie
Personally, me myself had the utmost repect for this person, Mr Dale Carnegie. He had changed thousands to even millions of people all around the world with his inspiring words through mouth and even words. That's why he is a man of influence. He wrote 8 books in total, the most notable one is "How to Win Friends and Influence People" which first published in 1936, and has sold over 15 million copies through many editions and remains popular today. Furthermore, he wrote a bibliography of Abraham Lincoln titled "Abraham The Unknown". These books remain best seller until today and they are still changing people's life.
Dale Carnegie was borned in 1888 in Maryville, Missouri. Back then, he was a poor farmer's boy, the second son of James William Carnagey. In his teens, Dale found that he had a natural talent for public speaking, which he put to work in church and local events, including the high school debating team. He was determined to go to college, but couldn't afford to board at the school. He had to get up at 4 a.m. to milk his parents' cows. However, he managed to get educated at the State Teacher's College in Warrensburg. His first job after college was selling correspondence courses at ranchers; then he moved on to selling bacon, soap and lard for Armour & Company. He was successful to the point of making his sales territory of South Omaha, Nebraska the national leader for the firm.
After saving $ 500, Carnegie quit sales in 1911 in order to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a Chautauqua lecturer. He ended up instead of attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, but found little success as an actor, though it is written that he played the role of Dr. Hartley in a road show of Polly of the Circus. When the production ended, he returned to New York, unemployed, nearly broke, and living at the YMCA on 125th street. It was there that he got the idea to teach public speaking, and he persuaded one manager to allow him to instruct a class in return of 80% of the net proceeds. In his first session, he had run out of material; improvising, he suggested that the students speak about "something that made them angry", and discovered that the technique made speakers unafraid to address a public audience. From this 1912 debut, the Dale Carnegie evolved. Carnegie had tapped into the average American desire to have more self-confidence, and by 1914, he was earning $500 - $ 10,000 every week.
Dale Carnegie was borned in 1888 in Maryville, Missouri. Back then, he was a poor farmer's boy, the second son of James William Carnagey. In his teens, Dale found that he had a natural talent for public speaking, which he put to work in church and local events, including the high school debating team. He was determined to go to college, but couldn't afford to board at the school. He had to get up at 4 a.m. to milk his parents' cows. However, he managed to get educated at the State Teacher's College in Warrensburg. His first job after college was selling correspondence courses at ranchers; then he moved on to selling bacon, soap and lard for Armour & Company. He was successful to the point of making his sales territory of South Omaha, Nebraska the national leader for the firm.
After saving $ 500, Carnegie quit sales in 1911 in order to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a Chautauqua lecturer. He ended up instead of attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, but found little success as an actor, though it is written that he played the role of Dr. Hartley in a road show of Polly of the Circus. When the production ended, he returned to New York, unemployed, nearly broke, and living at the YMCA on 125th street. It was there that he got the idea to teach public speaking, and he persuaded one manager to allow him to instruct a class in return of 80% of the net proceeds. In his first session, he had run out of material; improvising, he suggested that the students speak about "something that made them angry", and discovered that the technique made speakers unafraid to address a public audience. From this 1912 debut, the Dale Carnegie evolved. Carnegie had tapped into the average American desire to have more self-confidence, and by 1914, he was earning $500 - $ 10,000 every week.
By 1916, Dale was able to rent Carnegie Hall itself for a lecture to a packed house. Carnegie's first collection of his writings was Public Speaking: a Practical Course for Business Men (1926), later entitled Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business (1932). His crowning achievement, however, was when Simon & Schuster published How to Win Friends and Influence People. The book was a bestseller from its debut in 1937, in its 17th printing within a few months. By the time of Carnegie's death, the book had sold five million copies in 31 languages, and there had been 450,000 graduates of his Dale Carnegie Institute It has been stated in the book that he has criticized over 150,000 speeches in his participation of the adult education movement of the time. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army.
His first marriage ended in divorce in 1931. On November 5, 1944, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he married Dorothy Price Vanderpool, who also had been divorced. Vanderpool had two daughters; Rosemary, from her first marriage, and Donna Dale from their marriage together. The official biography from Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. states that he died of Hodgkin's disease on November 1, 1955. He died at Forest Hills, New York, and was buried in the Belton, Cass County, Missouri cemetery.
The 8 books he wrote and which are still in the market are:
1. How to Win Friends and Influence People
2. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
3. Lincoln the Unknown
4. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
5. The Dale Carnegie Scrapbook
6. Don't Grow Old - Grow Up
7. Managing Through People
8. Enrich Your Life, The Dale Carnegie Way
