How to Win Friends and Influence People is without a doubt one of -- if not the -- most important business book of all time. Not only did it create the self-help genre, but it also helped offer guidance to transformative business leaders like Warren Buffett. The book details several rules which people should live by and details things like how to be a better leader, how to better deal with people, how to inspire confidence in subordinates, and making readers lives better overall.
How to Win Friends and Influence People got incredible reviews when it was released (and still continues to get good reviews to this day). Reviewers on Amazon gave the book 4.6 out of 5 stars. Reviews on Goodreads gave the book a rating of 4.18 out of 5 stars. The book is not without its detractors though. Among one of the book's first skeptics was famed writer Sinclair Lewis, who said that the book encouraged people to be fake and disingenuous " so that you may screw things out of them." In that present day, most criticism is aimed at the books strange and outdated advice. The book went through a staggering number of editions in its first year of publication: 17. In that same time, it sold over 250,000 copies.
