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Earl Nightingale

Nacido: March 12, 1921 – Los Angeles, California, United States

Earl Nightingale was an American radio broadcaster, motivational speaker, and author focused on personal development, success, and human potential. He is best known for The Strangest Secret and for co-founding Nightingale-Conant. His spoken-word recording The Strangest Secret became the first to earn a Gold Record, helping shape the modern self-improvement industry.

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Earl Nightingale was an American broadcaster, author, and motivational teacher whose career helped define the modern self-development industry. Born in Los Angeles in 1921, he came of age during the Great Depression, a period that shaped both his discipline and his faith in self-education. His formal schooling was less important to him than the habit of reading, and he later described books and libraries as central to his intellectual formation. Military service during World War II marked an early turning point, deepening his interest in purpose, responsibility, and the question of why some people direct their lives with intention while others drift.

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We become what we think about
-The Strangest Secret
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The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you’re immediately a successful person and you are then in that rare group of people who know where they’re going
-The Strangest Secret
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Every person is, in reality, in business for himself or herself in that each is building his or her own life regardless of who happens to write his or her paycheck
-Is Your Personal Corporation Growing?
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Discouragement, on the other hand, harms more than any of these — it causes you to sit down, pity yourself, and do nothing
-The Devil’s Wedge
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These people are happiest and most alive when they’re in their river — in whatever business or career or profession it happens to be
-The River or the Goal
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Only 8 percent of your worries are worth concerning yourself about. Ninety-two percent are pure fog with no substance at all
-The Fog of Worry
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Now, success doesn’t lie in the achievement of a goal, although that’s what the world considers success; it lies in the journey toward the goal
-Success: a worthy destination
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The creative person realizes that his mind is an inexhaustible storehouse
-The Profile of a Creative Person
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The human mind is the one thing that separates us from the rest of the creatures on earth
-The Great Problem-Solving Tool

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"Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet"

Zig Ziglar

"Earl Nightingale retired from the radio business only to find a fortune after a motivational record he cut for insurance agents went gold"

The Washington Post

"Terry Savage called Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret one of the great motivational books of all time"

Terry Savage

"Earl Nightingale was a giant, the foremost motivational speaker of his time, until his death in 1989"

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"Earl Nightingale's commentary on life motivated and inspired millions of people"

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"Earl Nightingale was a gravel-voiced broadcaster and a pioneer in the production of motivational audiotapes"

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"Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others"

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