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Og Mandino

Went from being suicidal to being a bestselling author and legendary speaker.

After his military duties, Mandino became an insurance salesman. One wintry November morning in Cleveland, Mandino contemplated committing suicide. But as he sorted through several books in a library, volumes of self-help, success and motivation books captured Mandino’s attention. He selected some titles, went to a table and began reading. Mandino followed his visit to the library with more visits to many other libraries around the United States. He read hundreds of books that dealt with success, a pastime that helped him alleviate his alcoholism. Mandino eventually became a successful writer and speaker. His works were inspired by the Bible and influenced by Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone, and Emmet Fox. He was inducted into the National Speakers Association Speaker Hall of Fame.
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A Better Way to Live
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A Better Way to Live

by Og Mandino

Og Mandino was the most popular inspirational author of his era. Before that he was a 35-year-old drunken derelict! In this book, he tells us how he found "a better way to live" and shares his 17 Rules to Live By so we can rock it as well. We'll start by building foundations below our air-castles, counting our blessings, going the extra mile and learning from Lady Liberty's Hair-do.

The Greatest Salesman in the World
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The Greatest Salesman in the World

by Og Mandino

Would you like to be the greatest version of you? Og Mandino's classic can help with that. The best selling book on sales ever written is really a fun fable about how to achieve success in any/ever domain. In the Note, we unroll the "10 ancient scrolls" of wisdom to discover that obstacles are our friends, good habits are essential and other such goodness.

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I will form good habits and become their slaves.
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Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
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The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity! There is a better way to live!
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It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
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Surprise everyone. Change your work habits. Go the extra mile!
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Above all, greet the morning with a smile.
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Now, how do you suppose you would treat everyone you meet today, if you knew that they would be gone forever at day’s end? You know how. With more consideration and care and tenderness and love than you ever have before.
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Setting goals is easy. As with New Year’s resolutions, any of us can jot down long lists of things we hope to accomplish in the future . . . but then we continue to live exactly as we have in the past.
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Yet I know so well from experience that in the final showdown your future is strictly up to you. No book, no lecture, or rabbi, and no motivational tape, can do anything toward altering the way you live unless *you* are determined to pay the price in time and effort and sacrifice and pain. The choice is yours . . . and yours alone.
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I will greet this day with love and I will succeed.
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I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior.
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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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As long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win. I will persist. I will win.
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I will command and I will obey mine own command. I will act now.
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
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