Carnegie, Dale

Carnegie, Dale, 1888-1955, American lecturer and writer on self-improvement, b. Maryville, Mo., as Dale Carnagey; grad. State Normal School Number Two, Warrensburg, Mo. (1908). After stints as a salesman and actor, he began teaching (1912) public speaking in New York City at a YMCA. His popular classes eventually became the Dale Carnegie Course, a pioneering training program in communication and interpersonal relations for people in sales, business management, and other fields. Carnegie wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a runaway bestseller; How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948); and other books. He also penned newspaper columns and had a radio program.

orig. Dale Carnegey

(born Nov. 24, 1888, Maryville, Mo., U.S.—died Nov. 1, 1955, Forest Hills, N.Y.) U.S. lecturer and author. Born into poverty, he worked as a traveling salesman and an actor before he began teaching public speaking at a YMCA in New York City in 1912. His classes were extremely successful, and he was soon lecturing to packed houses. To standardize his teaching methods he began publishing pamphlets, which he collected into book form as Public Speaking: A Practical Course for Business Men (1926). His hugely popular How To Win Friends and Influence People (1936) won him a national following; like most of his books, it reveals little that was unknown about human psychology but stresses that an individual's attitude is crucial. The Dale Carnegie Institute subsequently established hundreds of chapters throughout the country.

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Carnegie may refer to:

• Andrew Carnegie, Scottish industrialist and philanthropist, after whom are named:
• Carnegie Steel Company
• The Carnegie Building, a building on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for which he provided funds.
• Carnegie Steel, for which was named
• Carnegie, a town in Pennsylvania, United States
• USS Carnegie (CVE-38)
• Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT), now part of the Carnegie Mellon University.
• Carnegie Institution for Science also called Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW), which conducts scientific research.
• The Carnegie stages of embryonic development
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Museum of Art, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which awards the
• Carnegie Prize
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History, featuring the famous Dinosaur Hall.
• The Carnegie collection, a series of educational figures based on the exhibits in Dinosaur Hall.
• Carnegie Deli, in New York City
• Carnegie Hall, in New York City
• Carnegie Hall, Inc., in Lewisburg, West Virginia
• The Carnegie libraries
• The Carnegie Council
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• The Carnegie Foundation which manages the Peace Palace.
• The Carnegie Medal in Literature
• The Carnegie Hero Fund
• Carnegie College in Dunfermline, a further education college
• Carnegie, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia
• Carnegie Community Centre in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia
• Lake Carnegie, at Princeton University in New Jersey
• Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education at Leeds Metropolitan University
• Leeds Carnegie, a professional Rugby club, owned by Leeds Metropolitan University
• Yorkshire Carnegie, Cricket Twenty20Cup team.
• Leeds Carnegie L.F.C., a women's football team from Leeds

People

• Dale Carnegie, motivational speaker & author
• David Carnegie Sr., Scottish-Swedish industrialist
• Carnegie Investment Bank, Swedish investment bank
• David Carnegie Jr., Australian explorer
• James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife
• Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, American nurse and educator
• The surname of all the Earls of Northesk, 1580-present.

Places

• Carnegie, Oklahoma
• Carnegie, Pennsylvania
• Carnegie, Victoria
• Lake Carnegie, in Western Australia