Og Mandino

1923–1996 · American self-help writer · The Greatest Salesman in the World

Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II was an American writer whose motivational books — above all The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968) — sold more than 50 million copies and were translated into over 25 languages ↗. His register is the one this sentence actually speaks in: second-person, coaching, concerned with performance and the next attempt. But the credit to Mandino is no better documented than the credit to Malcolm X — Wikiquote’s Og Mandino entry ↗ does not carry the line, and no book or page has been identified for it.

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“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time”

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