Zig Ziglar

Zig Ziglar
Ziglar in March 2009
Born	November 6, 1926 Coffee County, Alabama, US
Died	November 28, 2012 (aged 86) Plano, Texas, US
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Resting place	McKinney, Texas
Other names	Hilary Hinton Ziglar
Alma mater	University of South Carolina
Occupation	Salesman, motivational speaker, author
Political party	Republican
Religion	Baptist
Spouse(s)	Jean Ziglar (married 1946–2012, his death)
Children	Suzan Ziglar Witmeyer (died 1995) Tom Ziglar Cindy Ziglar Oates Julie Ziglar Norman Seven grandchildren

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6, 1926 – November 28, 2012) was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

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 twelve children.^[1]

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.

Ziglar served in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. He was in the Navy V-12 Navy College Training Program and attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.

Career

Ziglar later worked as a salesman in a succession of companies. In 1968, he became a vice president and training director for the Automotive Performance company, moving to Dallas, Texas.

By 2010, Ziglar still traveled around taking part in motivational seminars, despite a fall down a flight of stairs in 2007 that left him with short-term memory problems.

Personal life

Ziglar met his wife, Jean, in 1944 in Jackson, Mississippi. He was seventeen and she was sixteen. They married in late 1946.^[2] They had four children: Suzan, Tom, Cindy, and Julie.

Ziglar integrated Christianity into his motivational work. He was also a Republican who endorsed former Governor Mike Huckabee for his party's presidential nomination in 2008.^[3] On November 28, 2012, Ziglar died from pneumonia at a hospital in Plano, Texas.^[4]

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.^[5]
• Ziglar, Zig (1978). Confessions Of A Happy Christian. Gretna: Pelican Pub. Co. ISBN 0-88289-196-0.
• Ziglar, Zig (1982). Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-08102-8.
• Ziglar, Zig (1985). Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World. Nashville: Oliver Nelson. ISBN 0-8407-9039-2.
• Ziglar, Zig (1986). Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-09973-3.
• Ziglar, Zig (1994). Over the Top. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 0-8407-9112-7.
• Ziglar, Zig (1998). Success for Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books. ISBN 0-7645-5061-6.
• Ziglar, Zig; Hayes, John P. (2001). Network Marketing For Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books. ISBN 0-7645-5292-9.
• Ziglar, Zig (2003). Selling 101: What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 0-7852-6481-7.
• Ziglar, Zig (2004). Confessions of a Grieving Christian. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8054-2745-7.
• Ziglar, Zig (2004). The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-385-50297-4.
• Ziglar, Zig (2006). Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7852-8919-7.
• Ziglar, Zig; Norman, Julie Ziglar (2009). Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms. New York: Howard Books. ISBN 978-1-4391-4219-6.
• Ziglar, Zig; Ziglar, Tom (2012). Born to Win: Find Your Success Code. Dallas: SUCCESS Media. ISBN 9780983156512.

References

1. Johnson, Cecil (March 28, 2004). "Memoir Zigzags Through Life Of Salesman, Speaker". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
2. Casey, Erin. "Zig Ziglar's Lessons From The Top". Success Magazine. Retrieved October 28, 2008.
3. "Red Phillips, 'Zig Ziglar, R.I.P.', November 29, 2012". conservativetimes.org. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
4. Lynch, Rene (November 28, 2012). "Zig Ziglar dies at 86; motivational speaker inspired millions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
5. Calhoun, Milburn E. "Obituary: Zig Ziglar", Monroe News Star, 11 January 2012.

External links

• Official website
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Interview with Ziglar on Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar, Booknotes, 6 October 2002
• 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