Rating:  Summary: How does Og Mandino rate w/ Vickor Frankl - Will To Meaning Review: Discuss amongst yourselves
Rating:  Summary: Inspiring! Review: The attitude of success is reinforced in this powerful book. Readers are taught the necessity of perserverance in goal attainment. A key is given to unlock the door to achievement, i.e., "I will form good habits and become their slaves." Mandino stresses the point that true wealth is not in the material arena. Quality of life lies beyond the transitory nature of the physical. He focuses on enhancing generosity. In addressing interpersonal relationships he writes "all hate is let from my veins for I have not time to hate, only time to love." He is inspiring when he drives home a theme. His talent is in his ability to repeat and approach the topic from a new angle so that the freshness is not lost through repetition. I highly recommend this book. Its principles have positive implications far beyond successful sales work.
Rating:  Summary: Remember these rules Review: Repeat each one when you wake up, have lunch, and go to sleep for one month and then move on to the next one.1. I will form good habits and become their slave. 2. I will greet this day with love in my heart. 3. I will persist until I succeed. 4. I am nature's greatest miracle. 5. I will live this day as if it is my last. 6. Today I will be master of my emtions. 7. I will laugh at the world. 8. Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold. 9. I will act now. 10. I will pray for guidance.
Rating:  Summary: Inspirational Review: This charming story is set two thousand years ago with a religious theme. The character Hafid, when in his youth, desires to become a salesman in order to get rich and win the girl of his dreams. When he learns how difficult selling is, he laments: "Why will the people not listen to my story? ... Why do they close their door before I have said five words? Why do they lose interest in my talk and walk away? ... What is this fear that seizes me when I approach a closed door and how can I overcome it?" Then Hafid obtains the valuable scrolls and through studying them, becomes the greatest salesman in the world. A few paraphrases will give the reader an idea of what's on the scrolls: Be nice to people; Try, try, again; Seize the day; Have a sense of humor; Just do it. The main message is: Don't give up. Realize that the book is not a training manual; the scrolls are not a list of techniques to overcome buyer's resistance. Beginner salesmen, though, will appreciate the book for its inspirational value. Veteran salesmen, who perhaps understand much of what's on the scrolls, are still apt to enjoy the story. In fact anyone looking to sell what they have to say to a challenging public will find the book useful. Og Mandino's The Greatest Salesman in the World does for selling what A Message to Garcia does for management and The Richest Man in Babylon does for personal finance.
Rating:  Summary: The Greatest Salesman in the world Review: I don't know which book some of your "less than awe struck" readers read, but I read this book and If your in sales, you shouldn't be let on the street bringing a product to the masses until you've read this book! You should reflect when you are done with every chapter on what you were supposed to learn. If you didn't pick up the lesson then reread the chapter becuase you are too much in a hurry. This is a book that can help you to stay focus on what God wants a good salesman to be and not what the world wants. It should be a sales manager's first thing to give his new salesperson. Yes before even "How to win friends and influence people", this book should be read. I have every intention of reading this book again and reading book two asap. I'm sure it will be as amazing as book one. Also there is nothing weak about Og Mandino or his faith or the religiosityof this awesome book.Peace. God Bless!
Rating:  Summary: great Review: Thin and corny, yet a miracle in intself. Great great great.
Rating:  Summary: Overrated Review: Quite a fuss over a book which is just regurgitated advice on how to achieve success. The tie in with religion was weak as well.
Rating:  Summary: The Greatest Quest In Life Review: In this powerful book, Og Mandino shows why love and faith are so vital to our lives. The answer to so many of life's problems is found in this statement: I will greet this day with love in my heart. Love never fails. Therefore, if we learn to walk in love, then we are never going to fail either. Og mandino also tells us how to turn around even what seem to be impossible situations by walking in the never-ending faith. This book teaches how to let the never-failing love and the never-ending faith dominate our lives rather than to allow our emotions to rule us. So be it. We are to make the never-failing love and the never-ending faith the greatest quest in life.
Rating:  Summary: This Book Should Be Rates As, "Book Of The Millennium" Review: Mandino does a brilliant job of giving dignity and respect to the ancient profession of selling, which has been maligned and misunderstood by all too many people. Mandino's extended parable seems simple and direct, but the story turns out to be deceptively profound, for the author uses several clever plot twists to teach readers the ten key principles that will empower them to become successful in sales and in life. The book will surprise you...and delight you. It's short enough to read in an hour or two, but the message will stay with you for a lifetime. The Greatest Salesman in the world is proof that big things come in small packages.
Rating:  Summary: JUST THE RIGHT BOOK AT JUST THE RIGHT TIME! Review: Very inspiring, well written story. It changed the way I see my life, myself and those around me (and I haven't even used the scrolls as suggested). I sat down with the book the day I received it in the mail and didn't get back up until I had reached the back cover. I haven't done that in many moons. Buy, check out or borrow this book. If nothing else, it's a good read, but you may just find yourself all the better for it.
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