A "Review" of The Book 'The Greatest Salesman in the World' (by Og Mandino)

Article Title: A "Review" of The Book 'The Greatest Salesman in the World' (by Og Mandino)
Submitted by:Craig Lock
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Article Summary:
This is Og Mandino's first book. It is not only one of the best books on selling ever written, this is one of the best books on LIVING ever written. This is the gripping tale set in ancient Palestine of a little camel boy, Hafid, who becomes the greatest salesman in the world through following the ten scrolls of success.
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A "REVIEW" OF 'THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD' by Og Mandino

Submitter's Note:

I ‘ve been reading this most uplifting book by Og Mandino; so am sharing this short "review" in the spirit of passing on "bits" of the content, in the form of thoughts, quotations, concepts and principles (like the Laws of the Universe). As well as sharing what I feel is the central message of Mr Mandino's highly inspiring book (first published by Frederick Fell Publishers Inc, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc in 1968).
ISBN 0-553-27757-X

To properly understand my "highlighted" notes, you need to read the book fully ...to put them in their proper context.

(Where the pronoun "his" is used in this article, please substitute "her" if appropriate)

Thank you, Mr Mandino and Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.

Just sharing a few thoughts from Og Mandino's most uplifting book (and as I share I learn too)...

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A "REVIEW" OF 'THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD' by Og Mandino

"No other trade or profession has more opportunity for one to rise from poverty to great wealth than that of salesman."

# Form good Habits: Good habits are the key to all success in life

# Develop good Discipline

# Try to add value to your product and/or service

Failure will never overtake you, if your determination to succeed is strong enough...through "blood, sweat and tears". Say, "I will persist until I succeed"...

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - basketballer, Michael Jordan

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

# Visualise: Hold the picture of success firmly in your thoughts, picture it as already being yours, and amazing things will happen.

# NB: Think positively at all times. "The secret of the ages: Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions, strong is he who who forces his actions tc control his mind. Control your emotions. Man's potential to uplift his life through the proper use of the tools, the gifts he has received from his Creator."

Always remember,

# Success is a state of mind.

# Count your blessings and live with an "Attitude of Gratitude" with what you already have.

# Proclaim your rarity, your uniqueness

YOU are the greatest miracle in the world!

Shared by Craig Lock ("Information and Inspiration Distributer, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder")

"True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse."

To dearest dad, 'RC', "the greatest salesman in the world".

"Death is not a foe, but an invisible adventure"

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of ete
ity."

"Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."
- Thomas More

"Success. It is open to each individual to choose the goal and go after it - growth and human essence known as character. Perhaps the ultimate purpose of life itself is the testing of the human spirit, to develop out of it something better, more nearly perfect. For after the sands and the dust of the human body has been buried, only the human spirit is left to go on. Each individual in his or her lifetime is entrusted with a fragment of that human essence, to be a spark of his own existence from birth to death.
Rich? Has he or she enriched the life spirit, which was given to them?
Successful?
Has he or she made the spark glow more brightly."

- Howard Whitman in Og Mandino's 'University of Success'.
"Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road."
- Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish former Secretary General of the United Nations, tragically killed in an air-crash)

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"If I can throw a single ray of light across the darkened pathway of another;
if I can aid some soul to clearer sight of life and duty, and thus bless my brother;
if I can wipe from any human cheek a tear,
I shall not have lived my life in vain while here.

If I can guide some erring one to truth, inspire within his heart a sense of duty;
if I can plant within my soul of rosy youth a sense of right, a love of truth and beauty;
if I can teach one man that God and heaven are near,
I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If from my mind I banish doubt and fear, and keep my life attuned to love and kindness;
if I can scatter light and hope and cheer, and help remove the curse of mental blindness;
if I can make more joy, more hope, less pain,
I shall not have lived and loved in vain.

If by life’s roadside I can plant a tree, beneath whose shade some wearied head may rest,
though I may never share its beauty, I shall yet be truly blest –rnthough no one knows my name, nor drops a flower upon my grave,
I shall not have lived in vain while here."

– anonymous

"Together, one mind, one soul at a time, let's see how many people we can impact, empower, encourage and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials. Change YOUR world and you help change THE world."

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"A book is small enough to hold in your hand; but when you read it, the walls fall away and you're in a room as big as the world."

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
- Chinese proverb

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx

PPS:

"Success is doing the best you can, in as many ways as you can. It is being just and honest and true - not in a few things,
but in everything you do.

Always look ahead and never look back,
believe you can make all your dreams come true.
Always believe in the best you can bernand have faith in the things that you do.

Forget about the mistakes you've made yesterday,
the lessons you learn will prove valuable for today...
Never give up and think that you're through...
for there's always tomorrow and a chance to begin brand new.

It is in dreaming the greatest dreams...
and seeking the highest goals...
that we build the brightest tomorrows.

There is no limit to the goals you can attain,
or the success you can achieve...
your possibilities are as endless as your dreams.

Whatever it is that you seek in life,
whatever your dreams and what you hope to achieve,
whatever you try to reach - whatever you plan...
can all be yours - if you only believe you can!" - Larry S. Chengges

"Hold fast to dreamsr
For if dreams dier
Life is a broken-winged birdr
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreamsr
For when dreams gor
Life is a barren fieldr
Frozen with snow. "

• Langston Hughes