Og Mandino
Og Mandino
Augustine "Og" Mandino IIwas an American author. He wrote the bestselling book The Greatest Salesman in the World. His books have sold over 50 million copies and have been translated into over twenty-five different languages. He was the president of Success Unlimited magazine until 1976 and is an inductee of the National Speakers Association's Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 December 1923
CityFramingham, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.
Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I am a unique creature.
I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
True happiness lies within you.
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.