HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING 3
Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You 3
Preface 4
How This Book Was Written—and Why 4
Part One Fundamental Facts You Should Know about Worry 4
1 Live in"Day-tight Compartments" 9
2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations 16
3 What Worry May Do to You 21
Part Two Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry 31
4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems 31
5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries 36
Part Three How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You 36
6 How to Crowd Worry out of your Mind 41
7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down 47
8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries 51
9 Co-operate with the Inevitable 55
10 Put a"Stop-Loss"Order on Your Worries 61
11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust 65
Part Four Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness 65
12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life 71
13 The High Cost of Getting Even 79
14 If You Do This,You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude 84
15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? 88
16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself:Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You 92
17 If You Have a Lemon,Make a Lemonade 97
18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days 102
Part Five The Golden Rule for Conquering Worry 113
19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry 113
Part Six How to Keep from Worrying about Criticism 113
20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog 127
21 Do This—and Criticism Can't Hurt You 129
22 Fool Things I Have Done 132
Part Seven Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High 132
23 How to Add One Hour a Day to your Waking Life 139
24 What Makes You Tired—and What You Can Do about It 142
25 How The Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue—and Keep Looking Young 145
26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry 149
27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue,Worry,and Resentment 152
28 How to Keep from Worrying about Insomnia 157
Part Eight How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful 157
29 The Major Decision of Your Life 165
Part Nine How to Lessen Your Financial Worries 173
30 "Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries..." 173
Part Ten "How I Conquered Worry"—32 True Stories"Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once"By C.I.Blackwood 183
"I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour"By Roger W.Babson 184
"How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex"By Elmer Thomas 185
"I Lived in The Garden of Allah"By R.V.C.Bodley 187
"Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry"By Professor William Lyon Phelps 189
"I Stood Yesterday.I Can Stand Today"By Dorothy Dix 191
"I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn"By J.C.Penney 192
"I Go to The Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors"By Colonel Eddie Eagan" 193
I Was"The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"By Jim Birdsall 193
"I Have Lived by This Sentence"By Dr.Joseph R.Sizoo 194
"I Hit Bottom and Survived"By Ted Ericksen 195
"I Used to Be One Of the World's Biggest Jackasses"By Percy H.Whiting 196
"I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open"By Gene Autry 197
"I Heard a Voice in India"By E.Stanley Jones 198
"When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door"By Homer Croy 200
"The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry"By Jack Dempsey 201
"I Prayed to God to Keep Me out of an Orphan's Home"By Kathleen Halter 202
"I Was Acting Like a Hysterical Woman"By Cameron Shipp 203
"I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes"By Reverend William Wood 205
"I Found the Answer-keep Busy!"By Del Hughes 206
"Time Solves a Lot of Things"By Louis T.Montant,Jr 207
"I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger"By Joseph L.Ryan 208
"I Am a Great Dismisser"By Ordway Tead 209
"If I Had Not Stopped Worrying,I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago"By Connie Mack 210
"One at a Time Gentleman,One at a Time"By John Homer Miller 211
"I Now Look for The Green Light"By Joseph M.Cotter 212
How John D.Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years 213
"Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage From Going on the Rocks"By B.R.W 217
"I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax"By Paul Sampson 218
"A Real Miracle Happened to Me"By Mrs. John Burger 219
"Setbacks"By Ferenc Molnar 220
"I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days"By Kathryne Holcombe Farmer 220
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE 225
Eight Things This Book Will Help You Achieve 225
Preface to Revised Edition 226
How This Book Was Written—And Why By Dale Carnegie 227
Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most out of This Book 231
Part One Fundamental Techniques in Handling People 231
1 "If You Want to Gather Honey,Don't Kick over the Beehive" 237
2 The Big Secret of Dealing with People 246
3 "He Who Can Do This Has the Whole World with Him.He Who Cannot Walks a Lonely Way" 254
Part Two Six Ways to Make People Like You 267
4 Do This and You'll Be Welcome Anywhere 267
5 A Simple Way to Make a Good First Impression 275
6 If You Don't Do This,You Are Headed for Trouble 280
7 An Easy Way to Become a Good Conversationalist 285
8 How to Interest People 291
9 How to Make People Like You Instantly 294
Part Three How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking 294
10 You Can't Win an Argument 305
11 A Sure Way of Making Enemies—And How to Avoid It 310
12 If You're Wrong,Admit It 317
13 A Drop of Honey 322
14 The Secret of Socrates 327
15 The Safety Valve in Handling Complaints 331
16 How to Get Co-operation 334
17 A Formula That Will Work Wonders for You 338
18 What Everybody Wants 341
19 An Appeal That Everybody Likes 346
20 The Movies Do It.Tv Does It.Why Don't You Do It? 350
21 When Nothing Else Works,Try This 353
Part Four Be a Leader:How to Change People without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment 353
22 If You Must Find Fault,This Is the Way to Begin 359
23 How to Criticize—and Not Be Hated for It 363
24 Talk about Your Own Mistakes First 366
25 No One Likes to Take Orders 369
26 Let the Other Person Save Face 371
27 How to Spur People on to Success 374
28 Give a Dog a Good Name 377
29 Make the Fault Seem Easy to Correct 380
30 Making People Glad to Do What You Want 383
Part Five Letters That Produced Miraculous ResultsPart Six Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier 383
31 How to Dig Your Marital Grave in the Quickest Possible Way 397
32 Love and Let Live 401
33 Do This and You'll Be Looking up the Time-Tables to Reno 403
34 A Quick Way to Make Everybody Happy 406
35 They Mean so Much to a Woman 408
36 If You Want to Be Happy,Don't Neglect This One 410
37 Don't Be a"Marriage Illiterate" 413
THE QUICK ＆ EASY WAY TO EFFECTIVE SPEAKING 419
Introduction 419
Part One Fundamentals of Effective Speaking 423
1 Acquiring the Basic Skills 423
Take Heart from the Experience of Others 424
Keep Your Goal Before You 426
Predetermine Your Mind to Success 428
Seize Every Opportunity to practice 430
2 Developing Confidence 432
Get the Facts About Fear of Speaking in Public 432
Prepare in the Proper Way 434
Predetermine Your Mind to Success 437
Act Confident 438
3 Speaking Effectively the Quick and Easy Way 440
Speak About Something You Have Earned the Right to Talk About Through Experience or Study 440
Be Sure You Are Excited About Your Subject 444
Be Eager to Share Your Talk with Your Listeners 445
Part Two Speech,Speaker,and Audience 451
4 Earning the Right to Talk 451
Limit Your Subject 451
Develop Reserve Power 452
Fill Your Talk with Illustrations and Examples 453
Use Concrete,Familiar Words That Create Pictures 457
5 Vitalizing the Talk 459
Choose Subjects You Are Earnest About 459
Relive the Feelings You Have About Your Topic 462
Act in Earnest 463
6 Sharing the Talk with the Audience 464
Talk in Terms of Your Listeners'Interests 464
Give Honest,Sincere Appreciation 466
Identify Yourself with the Audience 467
Make Your Audience a Partner in Your Talk 468
Play Yourself Down 469
Part Three The Purpose of Prepared and Impromptu Talks 469
7 Making the Short Talk to Get Action 475
Give Your Example,an Incident from Your Life 478
State Your Point,What You Want the Audience to Do 481
Give the Reason or Benefit the Audience May Expect 482
8 Making the Talk to Inform 484
Restrict Your Subject to Fit the Time at Your Disposal 485
Arrange Your Ideas in Sequence 486
Enumerate Your Points as You Make Them 486
Compare the Strange with the Familiar 487
Use Visual Aids 490
9 Making the Talk to Convince 492
Win Confidence by Deserving It 493
Get a Yes-Response 493
Speak with Contagious Enthusiasm 495
Show Respect and Affection for Your Audience 496
Begin in a Friendly Way 496
10 Making Impromptu Talks 499
Practice Impromptu Speaking 500
Be Mentally Ready to Speak Impromptu 501
Get into an Example Immediately 501
Speak with Animation and Force 502
Use the Principle of the Here and Now 502
Don't Talk Impromptu—Give an Impromptu Talk 503
Part Four The Art of Communicating 507
11 Delivering the Talk 507
Crash Through Your Shell of Self-Consciousness 507
Don't Try to Imitate Others—Be Yourself 508
Converse with Your Audience 509
Put Your Heart into Your Speaking 511
Practice Making Your Voice Strong and Flexible 512
Part Five The Challenge of Effective Speaking 517
12 Introducing Speakers,Presenting and Accepting Awards 517
Thoroughly Prepare What You Are Going to say 518
Follow the T-I-S Formula 519
Be Enthusiastic 521
Be Warmly Sincere 522
Thoroughly Prepare the Talk of Presentation 522
Express Your Sincere Feelings in the Talk of Acceptance 523
13 Organizing the Longer Talk 524
Get Attention Immediately 524
Avoid Getting Unfavorable Attention 528
Support Your Main Ideas 530
Appeal for Action 532
14 Applying What You Have Learned 535
Use Specific Detail in Everyday Conversation 536
Use Effective Speaking Techniques in Your Job 537
Seek Opportunities to Speak in Public 537
You Must Persist 537
Keep the Certainty of Reward Before You 539