Goals by ZIG ZIGLAR AUDIOBOOK
Goals by ZIG ZIGLAR AUDIOBOOK
Goals by ZIG ZIGLAR AUDIOBOOK
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"Zig" Ziglar | |
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Ziglar in March 2009
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Born | November 6, 1926 Coffee County, Alabama, U.S. |
Died | November 28, 2012 (aged 86) Plano, Texas, U.S. |
Cause of death
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Pneumonia |
Resting place
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McKinney, Texas |
Other names | Hilary Hinton Ziglar |
Alma mater | University of South Carolina |
Occupation | Salesman, motivational speaker, author |
Political party
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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 |
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.[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.
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
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