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Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnegey) (November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln, titled Lincoln the Unknown, as well as several other books.

Carnegie was an early proponent of what is now called responsibility assumption, although this only appears minutely in his written work. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's reaction to them.

Born in 1888 in Maryville, Missouri, Carnegie was a poor farmer's boy, the second son of James William Carnagey and Amanda Elizabeth Harbison. In his teens, though still having to get up at 4 a.m. every day to milk his parents' cows, he managed to get educated at the State Teacher's College in Warrensburg. His first job after college was selling correspondence courses to ranchers; then he moved on to selling bacon, soap and lard for Armour & Company. He was successful to the point of making his sales territory, southern Omaha, the national leader for the firm.

Perhaps one of Dale Carnegie’s most successful marketing moves was to change the spelling of his last name from “Carnegey” to Carnegie, at a time when Andrew Carnegie was a widely revered and recognized name.

Carnegie's first marriage ended in divorce in 1931. On November 5, 1944, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he married Dorothy Price Vanderpool, who also had been divorced. Carnegie had two daughters; Rosemary, from his first marriage, and Donna Dale from his second marriage.

He died of Hodgkin's disease on November 1, 1955.He was buried in the Belton, Cass County, Missouri cemetery.

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T. Harv Eker is a business educator, known for his book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind published by HarperCollins and his mobile business school, Peak Potentials Training. He was originally a successful owner of a chain of fitness equipment stores, and then decided that his strategies were something that could be taught that most people were not learning.

He has various levels of training sessions, with names such as "Enlightened Warrior", "Wizard", etc. He is often able to recruit other multimillionaires to teach the courses, selling CDs at very high prices to defer the cost of these expert moneymakers taking time off to teach.

He has a set of his principals printed on illustrated cards published by Hay House.

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Jack Canfield  is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 115 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.

Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.

Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. Self Esteem Seminars trains entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve personal and professional goals, while The Foundation for Self Esteem trains social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals. Canfield is also the President of Souperspeakers.com, a service that provides inspirational speakers for various events. He also runs the Secret Science of Getting Rich Seminar (SGR Program) with partners Michael Beckwith and Bob Proctor.

In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.

Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.

The most recent book Canfield has written was the 2005 publication of The Success Principles. In it Canfield shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.

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Les Brown, born 1945 in Liberty City, Florida, is a motivational speaker and author. Born a twin in low-income Liberty City in Miami, Florida, Les and his twin brother, Wes, were adopted when they were six weeks old by Mrs. Mamie Brown. He won the Council of Peers Award of Excellence from the National Speakers Association in 1987, its highest honor. Toastmasters international also recognized him as one of the World's Top Five Speakers for 1992. He was also briefly married to singer Gladys Knight.

As a renowned professional speaker, author and television personality, Les Brown has risen to national prominence by delivering a high energy message which tells people how to shake off mediocrity and live up to their greatness. It is a message Les Brown has learned from his own life and one he is helping others apply to their lives. He is now one of the leading teachers for Success University

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Stephen R. Covey (born October 24, 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989. Other books he has written include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. His latest book is The 8th Habit, published in 2004. Covey lives with his wife Sandra, and their family in Provo, Utah, home to Brigham Young University where Dr. Covey taught prior the publication of his best selling book. He is a father of nine and a grandfather of forty-seven; he received the Fatherhood Award from the National Fatherhood Initiative in 2003.

Covey is the founder of the formerly Covey Leadership Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, which after being acquired by FranklinQuest on May 30, 1997 became the FranklinCovey Company, a global professional services firm and specialty retailer selling both training and productivity tools to individuals and organisations. Their mission statement reads: "We enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere."

Covey holds a BS in Business Administration from University of Utah in Salt Lake City, an MBA in Business Administration from Harvard University, and a DRE in Mormon Church History and Doctrine from Brigham Young University. He has made teaching principle-centered living and principle-centered leadership his life's work.

Covey is also a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity. 

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Wayne W. Dyer (born May 10, 1940) is a popular American self-help advocate. He frequently appears on U.S. public television (PBS) during their pledge drives.

Wayne Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1940. Dyer's family was abandoned by his alcoholic father and he spent his early life living in foster homes and orphanages. In 1958, Dyer joined the Navy and served for four years. In 1962, Dyer left the Navy and studied at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he graduated with a Ed.D. in counseling in 1970. He later worked as an associate professor at St. John’s University in New York.

Wayne Dyer lives in Maui, Hawaii. He has eight children.

Dyer is one of the most widely known and respected people in the field of self-empowerment, affectionately called the "father of motivation" by some of his fans. He first attained popularity with his book Your Erroneous Zones.

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Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883–November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. In America, Hill stated in his writings, people are free to believe what they want to believe, and this is what sets the United States apart from all other countries in the world. Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the promise of Hill's books.

Hill called his success teachings "The Philosophy of Achievement" and he considered freedom, democracy, capitalism, and harmony to be important contributing elements. For without these, Hill demonstrated throughout his writings, personal beliefs are not possible. He contrasted his philosophy with others, and thought Achievement was superior and responsible for the success Americans enjoyed for the better part of two centuries. Fear and selfishness had no part to play in his philosophy, and Hill considered them to be the source of failure for unsuccessful people.

The secret of Achievement was tantalizingly offered to readers of Think and Grow Rich, and was never named directly as Hill felt discovering it for themselves would provide readers with the most benefit. Hill presented the idea of a "Definite Major Purpose" as a challenge to his readers, to make them ask of themselves "in what do you truly believe?". For according to Hill, 98% of people had no firm beliefs, putting true success firmly out of reach. Hill's numerous books have sold millions of copies, proving that the secret of Achievement is still highly sought-after by modern Americans. Hill dealt with many controversial subjects through his writings including racism, slavery, oppression, failure, revolution, war and poverty. Persevering and then succeeding in spite of these obstacles using the philosophy of Achievement, Hill stated, was the responsiblity of every American.

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Brian Tracy (born in Canada in 1944) is a self-help author who has recorded many of his works as audio books. His talks and seminar topics include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness, and business strategy.

Tracy has a B.Comm., MBA [Master of Business Administration (postgraduate)] PH.D Humanities(Hon.) and is the Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in San Diego, California, with affiliates throughout the United States, and in thirty-one other countries.

Brian Tracy has recently launched Brian Tracy University, a university designed to focus primarily on entrepreneurs, business owners and sales professionals. Brian Tracy University offers fast moving, highly condensed learning programs to individuals who are busy, impatient, and results-oriented. www.briantracyu.com

The Brian Tracy College of Management and Entrepreneurship at Andrew Jackson University is named after him.

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Anthony J. Mahavorick, also known as Tony Robbins, pen name Anthony Robbins, (born on 29 February 1960 in Glendora, California, USA) is an American life coach, writer, and professional speaker. Robbins has authored a number of books, including Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within. His best known tape program is Personal Power II; other programs include Get the Edge! and Lessons in Mastery.

Neuro-linguistic programming:
Anthony Robbins is the inventor and proponent of what he refers to as neuroassociative conditioning, which is based on Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). Robbins studied NLP under NLP co-founder John Grinder, who encouraged him to look into the firewalking experience, which became the foundation of his popular firewalk seminars. The book Unlimited Power offers a number of examples of how to employ elements of NLP in day to day situations.

Robbins also conducts seminars, the most famous of which is his four-day Unleash the Power Within seminar, during which the participants walk over hot coals in bare feet. The aim of the seminar, demonstrated in the firewalk, is to illustrate that the main quality shared by those who achieve greatness is the ability to take action ('Personal Power'). Robbins' philosophy asserts that fear often holds people back from achieving what they want with their life, and that fear is a more powerful motivator than desire or attraction. Walking safely on burning coals requires no special physical skills, but it does require the mental discipline to overcome one's inner doubts. Applying that same principle to other aspects of life can, Robbins claims, empower the individual to attempt tasks he or she would previously (erroneously) have considered impossible.

Recently, Robbins has appeared at many of The Learning Annex Real Estate Wealth Expos wherein he is a headline speaker and at the Technology, Entertainment & Design (TED conference) conference alongside Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Malcolm Gladwell, and Jeff Bezos.

Techniques:
Among the techniques Robbins teaches are the following:

* Altering the body's physiology to achieve a change of emotional state.
* Asking specific questions to direct one's attention to aspects of human experience that create a more favorable psychology.
* Getting leverage to create change by associating a person's old behavior with massive pain and the desired new behavior with massive pleasure.
* Interrupting one's limiting pattern by doing something totally unexpected.
* Conditioning behavior by visualizing it over and over again.
* Goal-setting
* Creating a compelling future, vividly imagining one's end result to generate enthusiasm and power to work towards one's goals.

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