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![]() So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted, I thought about what they wanted. Personally, I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. He says, "I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. We were determined to spare no time, no expense, to discover every practical idea that anyone had ever used throughout the ages for winning friends and influencing people."Īnyway, on page 61 of the edition that I have, Dale Carnegie tells one of the many, many stories he uses to illustrate the very main idea that underlies the whole book. He says, "I recalled that we read over 100 biographies of Theodore Roosevelt alone. Then he lists all this stuff that he and his trained researcher read to figure out how the great leaders of all ages had dealt with people. In preparation for writing this book, he read everything he could find on the subject. You don't think of the word "moxie" much anymore, but when you read this, it is typical. Dale Carnegie writes in this pepped up style. When you read this thing, you can see why it is number one.
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