As a Depression-era child, Earl Nightingale was hungry for knowledge. From the time he was a young boy, he would frequent the Long Beach Public Library in California, looking for the answer to the query, "How will a individual, beginning from scratch, who has no specific benefit in the globe, reach the goals that he feels are significant to him, and by thus doing, create a main contribution to others?" His desire to obtain an answer, combined with his all-natural curiosity about the globe as well as its workings spurred him to become among the world's foremost experts on success and what makes individuals lucrative.

Earl Nightingale's early profession started when, as a member of the Marine Corps, he volunteered to function at a neighborhood radio station as an announcer. The Marines equally gave him a chance to travel, although he just got because far because Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Earl managed to be among the limited survivors aboard the battleship Arizona. After five more years in the service, Earl and his spouse moved initially to Phoenix then Chicago to build what was to be a rather fruitful profession in network radio.

As the host of his own daily commentary system on WGN, Earl Nightingale organized a deal that furthermore gave him a commission on his own advertising sales. By 1957, he was thus lucrative, he decided to retire at the age of 35. In the meantime, Earl had purchased his own insurance business and had invested several hours motivating its sales force to better accomplishments. When he decided to go on holiday for an extended time period, his sales manager begged him to place his inspirational words on record. The outcome later became the recording entitled The Strangest Secret, the initial spoken word content to win a Gold Record by marketing over a million duplicates.

In The Strangest Secret, Earl had found an answer to the query that had inspired him as a youth and, subsequently, found a method to leave a durable legacy for others About this time, Earl met a lucrative businessman by the name of Lloyd Conant and together they started an "electronic publishing" company
which eventually grew to become a multi-million dollar giant in the self-improvement field. They additionally developed a syndicated, 5-minute daily radio system, Our Changing World, which became the longest-running, many generally syndicated show in radio.

When Earl Nightingale died on March 28, 1989, Paul Harvey broke the news to
the nation on his radio system with all the words, "The sonorous voice of the nightingale was stilled." In the words of his wise friend and commercial announcer, Steve King, "Earl Nightingale not allow a day go by that he didn't discover anything modern and, subsequently, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion."

Quotes by Earl Nightingale
"You become what you consider."
By Earl Nightingale

"People with goals succeed because they recognize where they are going... It's
because easy because that."
By Earl Nightingale

"What's going on in the inside shows found on the outside."
By Earl Nightingale

"Creativity is a all-natural extension of our enthusiasm."
By Earl Nightingale

You are, at this time, standing, appropriate in the center of the own "acres of diamonds."
By Earl Nightingale