Zig Ziglar

Zig Ziglar
File:Zig Ziglar at Get Motivated Seminar, Cow Palace 2009-3-24 3.JPG Ziglar in March 2009
Born	(1926-11-06)November 6, 1926 Coffee County, Alabama, US
Died	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
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.

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. 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. On November 28, 2012, Ziglar died from pneumonia at a hospital in Plano, Texas.

Books

• Pelican publisher Milburn E. Calhoun reported his greatest success with See You at the Top, which had been initially rejected by some 30 publishers.

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