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Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime
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Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live
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One of the leading stars in the "positive thinking" movement, Zig Ziglar has made a career out of telling people how to have a positive attitude, no matter what their circumstances are.
Zig Ziglar was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. He traveled over five million miles across the world delivering powerful life improvement messages, cultivating the energy of change, from 1970 until 2010.
Background
Zig Ziglar was born Hilary Hinton Ziglar on November 6, 1926, in Coffee County, Alabama, United States. He is the son of John Silas Ziglar and Lila Wescott Ziglar. In 1931, when Ziglar was five years old, his father took a management position at a Mississippi farm, and his family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he spent most of his early childhood.
Education
Zig attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia between 1943 and 1945.
Ziglar was one of the charter members in the establishment of American Salesmasters in 1963. The company's objective was to raise the image of salespeople in America by providing seminars. They began with cities across the South and Midwest, featuring speakers like Ziglar, Norman Vincent Peale, Ken McFarland, Cavett Robert, Bill Gove, Maxwell Maltz, Red Motley and many more. They booked an auditorium, put together a slate of speakers and contacted local businesses to sell tickets.
Ziglar went on to speak extensively for audiences of the National Association of Sales Education, founded by Dick Gardner in 1965, and also became a major sales trainer for Mary Kay Cosmetics. In 1968, he became a vice president and training director for the Automotive Performance company and moved to Dallas, Texas. The company went bankrupt two years later. Subsequently, Ziglar spoke extensively at seminars for Peter Lowe, of Get Motivated.
In addition to speaking, Ziglar wrote over thirty celebrated books on personal growth, leadership, sales, faith, family and success, including See You at the Top, which had been rejected by thirty publishers before making its debut, Born to Win, Developing the Qualities of Success, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World, Top Performance, and Secrets of Closing the Sale. His books and audios have been translated into over thirty-eight languages.
Quotations:
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want."
Connections
Ziglar met his wife, Jean, in 1944, in Jackson, Mississippi. He was 17 and she was 16; they married in late 1946. They had four children: Suzan, Tom, Cindy, and Julie.