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Summary of the book is shown below. Wish it spoke more about enjoying life and your job though:
**Rules from how to stop worruing and start living:**
1. Do not imitate others.
2. Apply these four good working habits:
-Clear your desl of all papers except those relating to the immediate problem at hand.
-Do things in order of their importance.
-When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision.
-Learn to organize, deputize, and supervise.
3. Learn to relax at your work.
4. Put enthusiasm into your work.
5. Count your blessings - not your troubles.
6. Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment.
7. Do the very best you can.
**Rules from how to win friends and influence people**
1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest, sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
4. Become genuinely interested in other people.
5. Make the other person feel importan and do it sincerely.
6. Show respect for the other man’s opinions. Never tell a man he is wrong.
7. Begin in a friendly way.
8. Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately.
9. Let the other fellow feel that the idea is his.
10. Appeal to the nobler motives.
11. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.
12. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
13. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
14. Let the other man save his face.
**Rules from how to stop worruing and start living:**
1. Do not imitate others.
2. Apply these four good working habits:
-Clear your desl of all papers except those relating to the immediate problem at hand.
-Do things in order of their importance.
-When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision.
-Learn to organize, deputize, and supervise.
3. Learn to relax at your work.
4. Put enthusiasm into your work.
5. Count your blessings - not your troubles.
6. Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment.
7. Do the very best you can.
**Rules from how to win friends and influence people**
1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest, sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
4. Become genuinely interested in other people.
5. Make the other person feel importan and do it sincerely.
6. Show respect for the other man’s opinions. Never tell a man he is wrong.
7. Begin in a friendly way.
8. Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately.
9. Let the other fellow feel that the idea is his.
10. Appeal to the nobler motives.
11. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.
12. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
13. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
14. Let the other man save his face.