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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie

Publish date
1936
Publisher
Rupa Publications India
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PREFACE: HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN—ANT) WHY Thirty-five years ago, I was one of the unhappiest lads in New York. I was selling motor trucks for a living. I didn't know what made a motor truck run. That wasn't all: I didn't want to know. I despised my job. I despised living in a cheap furnished room on West Fifty-sixth Street—a room infested with cockroaches'. I still remember that I had a bunch of neckties hanging…

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