《人性的優點》一書中，作者戴爾•卡耐基對共同的人性、相通的心理進行了通俗的揭示，可以說是他一生最重要、最生動的人生經驗。書中記錄了人們擺脫焦慮、憂愁等心理困境，過上快樂生活的方法，以及走向成功的實際案例，幫助讀者認清自己，相信自己，服焦慮，充分開發潛在能力，發揮人性的優點，開拓成功美好的新生活。

戴爾•卡耐基（Dale Carnegie ，1888—1955）
 
美國著名心理學家和人際關係學家、成功學大師，被譽為“20世紀最偉大的心靈導師”“美國現代成人教育之父”。他一生致力於人性問題的研究，運用心理學和社會學知識，對人類共同的心理特點進行探索和分析，開創併發展出一套獨特的融演講、推銷、為人處世、智慧開發於一體的成人教育方式，喚起了無數有志青年的進取心。他在實踐基礎上撰寫而成的《人性的優點》和《人性的弱點》等著作，被西方世界視為人際交往及驅除壓力的經典，銷量僅次於《聖經》。

Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You
Preface How This Book Was Written—and Why
Part One Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry
Chapter 1 Live in “Day-tight Compartments”
Chapter 2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations
Chapter 3 What Worry May Do to You
Part Two Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry
Chapter 4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems
Chapter 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Percent of Your Business Worries
Part Three How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You
Chapter 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind
Chapter 7 Don’t Let the Beetles Get You Down
Chapter 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries
Chapter 9 Co-operate with the Inevitable
Chapter 10 Put a “ Stop-Loss” Order on Your Worries
Chapter 11 Don’t Try to Saw Sawdust
Part Four Seven Ways to Cultivate a Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness
Chapter 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life
Chapter 13 The High Cost of Getting Even
Chapter 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude
Chapter 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?
Chapter 16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No
One Else on Earth Like You
Chapter 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade
Chapter 18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days
Part Five The Golden Rule for Conquering Worry
Chapter 19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry
Part Six How to Keep from Worrying About Criticism
Chapter 20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog
Chapter 21 Do This—and Criticism Can’t Hurt You
Chapter 22 Fool Things I Have Done
Part Seven Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High
Chapter 23 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life
Chapter 24 What Makes You Tired—and What You Can Do About It 
Chapter 25 How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue—and Keep Looking Young 
Chapter 26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry
Chapter 27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry,
and Resentment
Chapter 28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia
Part Eight How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful
Chapter 29 The Major Decision of Your Life
Part Nine How to Lessen Your Financial Worries
Chapter 30 “Seventy Percent of All Our Worries....”
Part Ten “How I Conquered Worry” —32 True Stories
Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once
I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour 
How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex 
I Lived in the Garden of Allah 
Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry 
I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today 
I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn 
I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors 
I Was “the Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech” 
I Have Lived by This Sentence 
I Hit Bottom and Survived 
I Used to Be One of the World’s Biggest Jackasses 
I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open 
I Heard a Voice in India 
When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door 
The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry 
I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphan’s Home 
I Was Acting Like a Hysterical Woman 
I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes 
I Found the Answer—Keep Busy! 
Time Solves a Lot of Things 
I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger 
I Am a Great Dismisser 
If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago 
One at a Time Gentleman, One at a Time 
I Now Look for the Green Light 
How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years
Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage from Going on the Rocks 
I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn’t Know How to Relax 
A Real Miracle Happened to Me 
Setbacks 
I Was So Worried I Didn’t Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days