How To Win friends and Influence people How to Win Friends and Influence People was first published
in 1937 in an edition of only five thousand copies.
Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and
Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To
their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation,
and edition after edition rolled off the presses to
keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win
Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing
history as one of the alltime international bestsellers.
It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was
more than a faddish phenomenon of postDepression
days, as evidenced by its continued and uninterrupted
sales into the eighties, almost half a century later....