Dale Carnegie Biography

Born in 1888 in Maryville, 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 a.m. every day to milk his parents' cows, he managed to get educated at the State Teacher's College in Warrensburg. His first job after college was selling correspondence courses to 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 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.[citation needed] 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 the "Y" manager to allow him to instruct a class in return for 80% of the net proceeds. In his first session, he had run out of material; improvising, he suggested that 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 Course evolved. Carnegie had tapped into the average American's desire to have more self-confidence, and by 1914, he was earning $500 - the equivalent of nearly $10,000 now - every week.

Perhaps one of Carnegie’s most successful marketing moves was to change the spelling of his last name from “Carnegey” to Carnegie, at a time when unrelated Andrew Carnegie was a widely revered and recognized name. 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. It has long been rumoured that Dale Carnegie committed suicide. Many attribute this rumor to the suicide of Irving Tressler, author of, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People", an unauthorized parody of Dale Carnegie's classic book.[citation needed] He died at Forest Hills, New York, and was buried in the Belton, Cass County, Missouri cemetery.

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Dale Carnegie Motivation Quotes

Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 01:
"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 Motivation Quote 02:
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 03:
"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 04:
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy"


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 05:
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 06:
"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 07:
"Applause is a receipt, not a bill."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 08:
"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 09:
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 10:
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today".


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 11:
"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 12:
"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 13:
"There is only one way to get anybody to do anything... That is by making the other person want to do it. There is no other way."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 14:
"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 15:
"If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 16:
“Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.”


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 17:
"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 18:
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 19:
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude”


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 20:
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 21:
"Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do."


Dale Carnegie Motivation Quote 22:
"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."