[Gutenberg 16317] • The Art of Public Speaking

This Halcyon Classics ebook is Dale Carnegie's THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. Carnegie (or Carnagey before 1922) was a writer and lecturer who developed several popular courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Carnegie (1888-1955) wrote several best-sellers including THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING, HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, and HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING.

Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker anything more than a machine--albeit a highly perfected machine--for the delivery of other men's goods. So self-development is fundamental in our plan.

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