Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6, 1926 â€" November 28, 2012) was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
Biography
Early life and education
"Zig" Ziglar was born in Coffee County in southeastern Alabama, to John Silas Ziglar and Lila Wescott Ziglar. He was the tenth of 12 children.
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. The next year, his father died of a stroke, and his younger sister died two days later.
He was in the Navy V-12 Navy College Training Program and attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.
Career
Zig was a charter member of American Salesmasters with Richard "Dick" Gardner and Hal Krause in 1963. The companies objective was to raise the image of salespeople in America. They functioned as a seminar provider in cities across the Midwest (Memphis, Atlanta, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, etc) featuring speakers like Zig, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Ken McFarland, Cavett Robert, Bill Gove, Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Red Motley and many more. They would book an auditorium, put together a slate of speakers and contact local businesses to sell tickets to the show. The audiences were chalk full of insurance agents, car salesmen, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, small business owners and curiosity seekers.
Following that Zig spoke extensively for audiences of the National Association of Sales Education (NASE) founded by Dick Gardner in 1965 and also became a major sales trainer for the Mary Kay Cosmetics. In 1968, he became a vice president and training director for the Automotive Performance company and moved to Dallas, Texas. Subsequent to that Zig spoke extensively at seminars for Peter Lowe from Canada and eventually signed an exclusive agreement to support Peter Lowe events.
In 2007, a fall down a flight of stairs left him with short-term memory problems. Nonetheless, by 2010, Ziglar still traveled around taking part in motivational seminars.
Personal life
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.
Ziglar, a Baptist, integrated Christianity into his motivational work. He was also a Republican who endorsed the former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee for his party's presidential nomination in 2008.
Death
On November 28, 2012, Ziglar died from pneumonia at a hospital in Plano, Texas.
Books
- Ziglar, Zig (1975). See You at the Top. Gretna: Pelican Pub. Co. ISBN 0-88289-126-X. Pelican publisher Milburn E. Calhoun reported his greatest success with See You at the Top, which had been initially rejected by some 30 publishers.
- Ziglar, Zig (1978). Confessions Of A Happy Christian. Gretna: Pelican Pub. Co. ISBNÂ 0-88289-196-0.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (1982). Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale. New York: Berkley Books. ISBNÂ 0-425-08102-8.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (1985). Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World. Nashville: Oliver Nelson. ISBNÂ 0-8407-9039-2.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (1986). Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others. New York: Berkley Books. ISBNÂ 0-425-09973-3.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (1994). Over the Top. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBNÂ 0-8407-9112-7.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (1998). Success for Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books. ISBNÂ 0-7645-5061-6.Â
- Ziglar, Zig & Hayes, John P. (2001). Network Marketing For Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books. ISBN 0-7645-5292-9. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- Ziglar, Zig (2003). Selling 101: What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBNÂ 0-7852-6481-7.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (2004). Confessions of a Grieving Christian. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group. ISBNÂ 0-8054-2745-7.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (2004). The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar. New York: Random House. ISBNÂ 0-385-50297-4.Â
- Ziglar, Zig (2006). Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBNÂ 978-0-7852-8919-7.Â
- Ziglar, Zig & Ziglar, Julie Norman (2009). Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms. New York: Howard Books. ISBN 978-1-4391-4219-6. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- Ziglar, Zig & Ziglar, Tom (2012). Born to Win: Find Your Success Code. Dallas: SUCCESS Media. ISBN 9780983156512. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
References
External links
- Official website
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview with Zig's son Tom about his father
- Interview with Ziglar's daughter Julie Ziglar Norman about her father
- Famous Zig Ziglar Quotes videos on YouTube
