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Dale Carnegie wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936 which has sold many millions of copies over the years. Someone had suggested I read it and I am glad that I did. Here's a quick take on how this may apply to magicians and also contains the story about Carnegie's meeting with Howard Thurston.

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Shhh... this is the big secret to it all and if you tell everyone about the little $15.00 book they won't spend the big bucks on those "How to Make Millions as a Magician" courses that basically say the same exact things.

The Carnegie material and still available courses are priceless and still the biggest secret weapon of the real business world.

I read a different book which I consider far more amusing. It was entitled "How to lose friends and alienate people"

I think you edited that one didnt you Mr Lewis, or was it just a psedunom you used?..

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mark lewis wrote:I read a different book which I consider far more amusing. It was entitled "How to lose friends and alienate people"

You obviously didn't learn a thing from it

Funny, I always thought that "How to lose friends and alienate people" was Mark's biography