Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.
Biography Zig Ziglar was born in Coffee County in southeastern
Alabama to parents John Silas Ziglar and Lila Wescott Ziglar. He was the tenth of twelve
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.
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. In 1944, he met his wife, Jean, in the capital
city of Mississippi, Jackson; he was seventeen and she was sixteen. They married in late
1946. 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. As of 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. State Representative Chris Greeley of Maine mentions
Ziglar in the credits of his CD on public speaking.
Ziglar wove his Christianity into his motivational work. He was also an open Republican who endorsed
former Governor Mike Huckabee for his party's presidential nomination in 2008.
Death Ziglar, who had been suffering from pneumonia,
died at the age of eighty-six at a hospital in Plano, Texas, on November 28, 2012.
Books Ziglar, Zig. 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 rejected
by some thirty publishers previously. Ziglar, Zig. Confessions Of A Happy Christian.
Gretna: Pelican Pub. Co. ISBN 0-88289-196-0. Ziglar, Zig. Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing
the Sale. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-08102-8. Ziglar, Zig. Raising Positive Kids in a Negative
World. Nashville: Oliver Nelson. ISBN 0-8407-9039-2. Ziglar, Zig. Top Performance: How to Develop
Excellence in Yourself and Others. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-09973-3.
Ziglar, Zig. Over the Top. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 0-8407-9112-7.
Ziglar, Zig. Success for Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books. ISBN 0-7645-5061-6.
Ziglar, Zig; Hayes, John P.. Network Marketing For Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books.
ISBN 0-7645-5292-9. Ziglar, Zig. Selling 101: What Every Successful
Sales Professional Needs to Know. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 0-7852-6481-7.
Ziglar, Zig. Confessions of a Grieving Christian. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8054-2745-7.
Ziglar, Zig. The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-385-50297-4.
Ziglar, Zig. 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. Embrace
the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms. New York: Howard Books. ISBN 978-1-4391-4219-6.
Ziglar, Zig; Ziglar, Tom. Born to Win: Find Your Success Code. Dallas: SUCCESS Media.
ISBN 9780983156512.
References
External links Official website
Booknotes interview with Ziglar on Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar, October 6, 2002.
Interview with Zig's son Tom on his father's life.
Interview with Ziglar's daughter Julie Ziglar Norman on her father's life.
Famous Zig Ziglar Quotes videos on YouTube