The Greatest Salesman in the World

It seems I had read this before... or maybe only "of this" before?

Well, it is and easy, quick read and I am intrigued by its fame and divisiveness. I find myself on the haters' side on this one. I find the forced wrappings in the Chris story (manger, Star of Bethlehem, Saul) hokey and forced. The litany of vapid aphorisms intended to bolster self-confidences read like scribbled ideas on the floor of a Toastmasters International meet-up.

I think the Scroll VI "Master Your Emotions" interestingly Stoic and showing a clear differentiation from the Dale Carnegie emotive How to Win Friends and Influence People school of thoughts and also opposed in flavor to Scroll VII "The Power of Laughter".

This venerated story just didn't work for me. The concept is good, but I don't like the way it was approached. Leveraging the Christmas story and Paul declared a brazen hubris not backed by the merit of the message. I also found the word choice overly descriptive. Every noun gets its own adjective, e.g. "Beyond the long row of silent tents, strands of thick hemp curled around four ancient olive trees." Moving from this cadence into the main inspirations made them seem more hypnotic than inspiring. There are plenty of useful meditations about persistence and positivity, but they weren't delivered in a way the resonates with me.

Rated: A-

A fun mix of principles of sales through a story set in Bible times. It was a short book with quick-hitting sales lessons.

When you speak to people involved in sales, almost everyone has read The Greatest Salesman in the World. It's a wonderful book that outlines the key principles for a successful, win-win business with heart.

Og Mandino has written many life-changing books that shall be remembered by many wonderful and amazing people for many future generations to come. I cannot express with words how much I still love and cherish University of Success, which is the first Og Mandino's Self-help book that I have read and The book that has completely changed and transformed my life by finally making me find and by finally making me see my life's purpose, my life's meaning, and my life's mission, or better said, various different kind of reasons why I was born and why I was truly brought onto this world. This book is also the kind of book that can change and transform human lives. It's not just a guide for salesmen or saleswomen, it's a lot more than that, it show more carries Og Mandino's timeless wisdom and Og Mandino's extensive knowledge within it, and hundreds of inspirational sentences which were clearly so brilliantly and masterfully put together that have completely changed and completely transformed millions of people's lives. So this book is not just any kind of book, it's a treasure box for those people who have lost themselves in time of turmoil and have lost faith in themselves and those who surround them, because it provides those kind of people with hope, with courage, and with a strength that's needed for them to find their own treasure box, or better said, find their own true reason for being. show less

Trite and inconsistent self-help maxims couched as deep religious wisdom.