Dale Carnegie's Biography(Books)(Photos)

later) (November 24, 1888 – november 1,
1955), was a pioneer in public speaking and

of becoming a Chautauqua lecturer. He ended
up instead attending the American Academy of

personality development, american writer and
lecturer and the developer of famous courses

Dramatic Arts in New York, but found little
success as an actor, though it is written

in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate
training, public speaking and interpersonal

that he played the role of Dr. Hartley in a
road show of Polly of the Circus.[citation

skills.
He became famous by showing others how to

needed] When the production ended, he
returned to New York, unemployed, nearly

become successful. His book How to Win
Friends and Influence People (1936) has sold

broke, and living at the YMCA on 125th
Street. It was there that he got the idea to

more than 10 million copies and has been
translated into many languages. His books

teach public speaking, and he persuaded the
"Y" manager to allow him to instruct a class

became popular because of his illustrative
stories and simple, well-phrased rules. Two

in return for 80% of the net proceeds. In his
first session, he had run out of material;

of his most famous maxims are, "Believe that
you will succeed, and you will," and "Learn

to love, respect and enjoy other people." His
other books include How to Stop Worrying and

discovered that the technique made speakers
unafraid to address a public audience. From

Start Living (1948). toward the beginning of
his career, Carnegie wrote Public Speaking

this 1912 debut, the Dale Carnegie Course
evolved. Carnegie had tapped into the average

and Influencing Men in Business (1931), which
became a standard text.

American's desire to have more
self-confidence, and by 1914, he was earning

Carnegie attended Warrensburg (Mo.) State

$500 - the equivalent of nearly $10,000 now -
every week.

Teachers College, and became a salesman for
Armour and Company. Later, he taught public

Perhaps one of Carnegie’s most successful

speaking to businessmen. He was born in Mary
ville, Mo.

marketing moves was to change the spelling of
his last name from “Carnagey” to

Dale Breckenridge Carnegie born in poverty on

Carnegie, at a time when Andrew Carnegie
(unrelated) was a widely revered and

a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How
to Win Friends and Influence People, first

recognized name. By 1916, Dale was able to
rent Carnegie Hall itself for a lecture to a

published in 1936, a massive bestseller that
remains popular today. He also wrote a

packed house. . Carnegie's first collection
of his writings was Public Speaking: a

biography of Abraham Lincoln, titled Lincoln
the Unknown, as well as several other books.

Practical Course for Business Men (1926),
later entitled Public Speaking and

Carnegie was an early proponent of what is

Influencing Men in Business (1932). his
crowning achievement, however, was when Simon

now called responsibility assumption,
although this only appears minutely in his

& Schuster published How to Win Friends and
Influence People. The book was a bestseller

written work.[citation needed] One of the
core ideas in his books is that it is

from its debut in 1937, in its 17th printing
within a few months. . By the time of

possible to change other people's behavior by
changing one's reaction to them.

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

Dale Carnegie born in 1888 in Maryville,

that he had critiqued over 150,000 speeches
in his participation of the adult education

Missouri, Carnegie was a poor farmer's boy,
the second son of James William Carnagey (b.

Indiana, February 1852 – living 1910) and
wife Amanda Elizabeth Harbison (b. Missouri,

February 1858 – living 1910). in his
teens, though still having to get up at 4

On November 5, 1944, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he
married Dorothy Price Vanderpool, who also

a.m. every day to milk his parents' cows, he
managed to get educated at the State

had been divorced. Vanderpool had two
daughters; Rosemary, from her first marriage,

Teacher's College in Warrensburg. His first
job after college was selling correspondence

and Donna Dale from their marriage together.

courses to ranchers; then he moved on to
selling bacon, soap and lard for Armour &

Carnegie died at his home in Forest Hills,
New York. He was buried in the Belton, Cass

Company. He was successful to the point of
making his sales territory of South Omaha,

County, Missouri cemetery. The official
biography from Dale Carnegie & Associates,

Nebraska the national leader for the firm.

Inc. states that he died of Hodgkin's disease
on November 1, 1955.