Word: ziglar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, Tom Landry, Bart Starr, Roger Staubach, Mike Ditka, Marilyn Quayle and Ruth ((Mrs. Norman Vincent)) Peale? On the success road along with Mario Cuomo, Larry King, Willard Scott, Paul Harvey, the Rev. Robert Schuller and Zig Ziglar. The show grew in marquee power when it moved on to Dallas last month with six starters on the motivational dream team -- Bush, Schwarzkopf, Staubach, Schuller, Peale and Ziglar -- talking to 16,500 people who had paid from $49 to $225 to be in Reunion Arena for eight hours...
...Francisco seminar, which drew 6,000 customers, I paid $110 extra (regular price: $49) for what I was assured would be an "awesome!" seat up front in the arena and a 7 a.m. breakfast with Zig Ziglar, a former pots- and-pans salesman billed as "America's No. 1 Motivational Speaker." Over doughnuts and coffee with 300 other "VIPs," I nodded and laughed along with everyone else at stories of his hardscrabble boyhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where his mother said motivational things like this: "You're going to have to lick that calf over again. That job might...
...definition of success, said Ziglar, 68, is "getting many of the things money can buy -- and all the things money can't buy. Money can buy you a mattress, but you can't buy a good night's sleep." I had come thinking Success 1994 would be about dollar signs -- and Ziglar recycled the old line, "Anyone who says he's not interested in money will lie about other things" -- but I was wrong. Success 1994 is essentially a secular religion preached by believing Christians. The recurrent theme: Money has no value without happiness and love...