Dale Carnegie Books

Preface
How This Book Was Written--and Why xiii
Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book xviii
Part 1 Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry
1 Live in "Day-tight Compartments" 3
2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations 14
3 What Worry May Do to You 21
Part 2 Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry
4 How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems 35
5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries 44
Part 3 How to Break the Worry Habit Before it Breaks You
6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind 51
7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down 60
8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries 67
9 Co-operate with the Inevitable 73
10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries 82
11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust 89
Part 4 Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness
12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life 99
13 The High Cost of Getting Even 111
14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude 119
15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? 125
16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You 131
17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade 138
18 How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days 145
Part 5 The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry
19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry 161
Part 6 How to Keep From Worrying about Criticism
20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog 181
21 Do This--and Criticism Can't Hurt You 185
22 Fool Things I Have Done 189
Part 7 Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High
23 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life 197
24 What Makes You Tired--and What You Can Do About It 202
25 How to Avoid Fatigue--and Keep Looking Young! 207
26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry 212
27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment 217
28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia 225
Part 8 How I Conquered Worry
Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once 235
I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour 237
How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex 238
I Lived in the Garden of Allah 242
Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry 245
I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today 247
I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn 248
I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors 250
I Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech" 251
I Have Lived by This Sentence 252
I Hit Bottom and Survived 253
I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses 254
I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open 255
I Heard a Voice in India 258
When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door 260
The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry 262
I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home 263
My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind 265
I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes 267
I Found the Answer 269
Time Solves a Lot of Things! 270
I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger 272
I Am a Great Dismisser 273
If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago 274
I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude 275
I Now Look for the Green Light 276
How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years 278
I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax 284
A Real Miracle Happened to Me 284
How Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry 286
I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days 287
Index 293