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NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT GIVING OFFENCE OR AROUSING RESENTMENT

Rule 1: Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Rule 2: Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.

Rule 3: Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

Rule 4: Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Rule 5: Let the other man save his face.

Rule 6: Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”

Rule 7: Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

Rule 8: Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

Rule 9: Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

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This website hosts the complete unrevised edition of Dale Carnegie’s masterpiece How to Win Friends and Influence People.

This website is audio enabled – you can listen to each post by clicking the player at the top.

This website is created and hosted by me LifeMathMoney. If you find this website useful, check out my blog at lifemathmoney.com (I am far less politically correct than Carnegie  – you have been warned).

Why the unrevised edition?

We use the unrevised edition because we believe the revised edition (the revisions were done by Carnegie’s relatives after his death) forcefully makes the language of the book gender neutral and politically correct and takes away from the originality of the work.

They even went so far ahead as to make quotes from other people gender neutral and politically correct.

Most of the revised editions available today do not include Parts 5 and 6. Even the included parts see many paragraphs and examples omitted.

In many places, characters in examples who were male have been edited to be female.

It appears that Carnegie’s relatives decided to heavily excise content and highhandedly edit the work to match their own sensibilities and what appears to the webmasters as a feminist agenda.

The unrevised edition as on this website is complete without exclusions and edits.

We believe this text written by Dale Carnegie himself while he was alive without the alterations made by his relatives after his death is more readable, complete, and enjoyable.

Public Domain Work

“How To Win Friends And Influence People” by Dale Carnegie is a public domain work under Indian law.

For more information, please read The Copyright Act, 1957 and The International Copyright Order, 1999.