Look up sale, sales, or for sale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Sale may refer to:

• Sales (disambiguation)
• Sale, discounts and allowances in the prices of goods, such as:
  • Fire sale, a drastic discount in prices
  • Loan sale, a sale under contract of all or part of the cash stream from a specific loan
  • Closeout, the final sale of an item or items to zero inventory

Places[link]

• Sale, Greater Manchester, England
  • Municipal Borough of Sale, a former local government district of Cheshire.
• Sale, Victoria, Australia
• Sale, Piedmont, an Italian commune in the province of Alessandria
• Salé, Morocco
• Sale Marasino, an Italian commune in the province of Brescia
• Sale Airport, Rabat, Morocco
• Sale (Tanzanian ward) a ward in Tanzania
• Shali, Republic of Tatarstan
• Saale, a river in Germany.

People[link]

• Chic Sale (1885-1936), American vaudeville performer
• Chris Sale, American baseball pitcher
• Forest Sale, American basketball player
• Freddy Sale, American baseball pitcher
• George Sale, 18th-century English orientalist
• Jamie Salé, Canadian pairs figure skater
• Kirkpatrick Sale, American environmental and human ecology scholar and author
• Sir Robert Henry Sale, GCB, British soldier
• Tim Sale (artist), American comic book artist
• Tim Sale (politician), Canadian politician
• Tommy Sale, English footballer
• Tony Sale, English computer hardware engineer and historian of computing

Music[link]

• The Sale, a record by the American progressive rock band Crack the Sky

Organisations[link]

• BOC Aviation, formerly Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE)

See also[link]

• Sales (disambiguation)
• Sail (disambiguation)

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"Zig" Ziglar
Ziglar in March 2009
Born	(1926-11-06) November 6, 1926 (age 85) Coffee County, Alabama
Nationality	American
Other names	Hilary Hinton Ziglar
Alma mater	University of South Carolina
Occupation	Salesman, motivational speaker, author

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (born 6 November 1926) is an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

Biography[link]

Zig Ziglar was born in Coffee County, Alabama, to parents John Silas Ziglar and Viola Ziglar. He was the tenth of 12 children.^[1]

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. In 1932, his father died of a stroke, and his younger sister died two days later.

Ziglar served in the Navy during World War II (circa 1943 to 1945). He was in the Navy V-12 Navy College Training Program, attending the University of South Carolina.

In 1944 he met his wife, Jean, in Jackson, Mississippi; he was 17 and she was 16. They married in late 1946.^{[2][citation needed]}

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.

In 1970, Ziglar went into the business of motivational speaking full-time, with an emphasis on Christian values. Until then, he had called himself by his given name, Hilary, but now started using his nickname, Zig, instead.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2010^[update], Ziglar still travels around taking part in motivational seminars, despite a fall down a flight of stairs in 2007 that left him with short-term memory problems.^[3]

Books[link]

• Ziglar, Zig (1975). See You at the Top. Gretna: Pelican Pub. Co. ISBN 0-88289-126-X.  Pelican publisher Milburn E. Calhoun reported his greatest succhess with See You at the Top, which had been rejected by some thirty publishers previously.^[4]
• Ziglar, Zig (1982). Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-08102-8. 
• Ziglar, Zig (1985). Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World. Nashville: Oliver Nelson. ISBN 0-8407-9039-2. 
• Ziglar, Zig (1986). Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others. New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-09973-3. 
• Ziglar, Zig (1994). Over the Top. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 0-8407-9112-7. 
• Ziglar, Zig (1998). Success for Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books. ISBN 0-7645-5061-6. 
• Ziglar, Zig; Hayes, John P. (2001). Network Marketing For Dummies. Foster City, Calif: IDG Books. ISBN 0-7645-5292-9. 
• Ziglar, Zig (2003). Selling 101: What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 0-7852-6481-7. 
• Ziglar, Zig (2004). Confessions of a Grieving Christian. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8054-2745-7. 
• Ziglar, Zig (2004). The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-385-50297-4. 
• Ziglar, Zig (2006). Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7852-8919-7. 
• Ziglar, Zig; Norman, Julie Ziglar (2009). Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms. New York: Howard Books. ISBN 978-1-4391-4219-6. 
• Ziglar, Zig; Ziglar, Tom (2012). Born to Win: Find Your Success Code. Dallas: SUCCESS Media. 

References[link]

1. ^ Cecil Johnson, "Hokey narration may motivate entrepreneurs", 28 March 2004 in Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Accessed 10 May 2012.
2. ^ Erin Casey. "Zig Ziglar's Lessons From The Top". Success Magazine. http://www.successmagazine.com/Zig-Ziglars-Lessons-From-The-Top/PARAMS/article/337/channel/19. Retrieved 2008-10-27. 
3. ^ Vanderlaan, Jon (11 September 2010). "Zig Ziglar still making a difference". Plano Star Courier. http://www.planostar.com/articles/2010/10/05/plano_star-courier/plano_insider/398.txt. Retrieved 5 October 2010. 
4. ^ Milburn E. Calhoun obituary, Monroe News Star, January 11, 2012

External links[link]

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• Booknotes interview with Ziglar on Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar, October 6, 2002.

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Brian Tracy (born January 5, 1944 in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) is a self-help author and motivational speaker. He serves as Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in Solana Beach, California, with affiliates throughout the United States and thirty-one other countries.

Early life[link]

After dropping out of high school before graduation, Tracy got a job on a tramp steamer and traveled around the world for eight years, eventually visiting more than eighty countries on five continents.

When he could no longer find a job as a laborer, he went into sales. Struggling at first, he decided to ask other successful salesmen for advice, and then to emulate them. By the end of his first year, he attained the status of top salesman. After his second year, he was made a Vice President in charge of 95 people. At the time he was only 25 years old.^[1]

Professional life[link]

Beginning in 1981, Tracy assembled his "success system", which was initially called "The Phoenix Seminar." Three years later, in 1985, he released an updated version of this seminar as a self-help audio tape entitled "The Psychology of Achievement".

Tracy's book Maximum Achievement was included as one of 50 success, motivation and leadership classics in the book 50 Success Classics^[2] (2004) by Tom Butler-Bowdon.

Tracy is a member of the board of trustees for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington, D.C.-based public policy research institute.^[3]

His body of work is loosely based on a number of other success "gurus" such as Earl Nightingale, Jim Rohn and Denis Waitley. He has recently^[when?] launched Brian Tracy University, an online course of study which is designed to assist entrepreneurs, business owners and sales professionals.

The Brian Tracy College of Business and Entrepreneurship at Andrew Jackson University (a distance learning school based in Hoover, Alabama), is named after him and based on his teachings. At the New York headquarters of ALM Media, a legal publisher, a motivational quote of Tracy's appears on the office wall: “excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”

In March 2008, Brian Tracy and some of his business partners created iLearningGlobal, which is another online learning community.^[4]

In January 15, 2009, Forbes.com reported that Tracy's books and seminars make about $25-30 million. He said that the more you read, the more you grow.

Personal life[link]

Brian Tracy's wife is named Barbara, and they have four children (Christina, Michael, David, and Catherine). Brian Tracy has three brothers, Robin, Dalmar, and Paul (Tracy dedicated his book "Million Dollar Habits" to his three brothers).

In April 2010, Tracy officially announced on his blog that he is suffering from throat cancer, which eventually disappeared.^[5]

Quotes[link]

• "Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift."
• "Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes."
• "If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also."
• "You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.^[6]
• "Resolve in advance that you will never give up, no matter what happens."

Books[link]

• Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed (1993) ISBN 0-671-86518-8
• Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople Everywhere (1995) ISBN 0-684-82474-4
• The Psychology of Selling: The Art of Closing Sales (1995) ISBN 978-0-7435-2069-0
• Jones and the Salesman (1999)
• The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success (2000) ISBN 1-57675-126-0
• The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible (2001) ISBN 1-58376-205-1
• Eat that Frog: 21 Ways to stop Procrastination and get More Done in Less Time (2001) ISBN 1-58376-202-7
• Get Paid More and Promoted Faster (2001) ISBN 1-58376-207-8
• Focal Point (2001) American Management Association ISBN 0-8144-7278-8
• Victory!: Applying the Proven Principles of Military Strategy to Achieve Success in Your Business and Personal Life (2002) ISBN 0-8144-0750-1
• Be a Sales Superstar: 21 Great Ways to Sell More, Faster, Easier in Tough Markets (2002) ISBN 1-57675-175-9
• Create Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success (2002) ISBN 0-471-25107-0
• Goals!: How To Get Everything You Want—Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible (2003) ISBN 978-1-57675-235-7
• Turbostrategy: 21 Powerful Ways to Transform your Business and Boost Your Profits Quickly (2003) ISBN 0-8144-7193-5
• Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (2003) ISBN 0-471-44858-3
• Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible (2004) ISBN 0-471-65264-4
• Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible (2004) American Management Association ISBN 0-8144-7247-8
• Something for Nothing : The All-Consuming Desire that Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare (2005) ISBN 1-59555-038-0
• The Power of Charm: How to Win Anyone over in Any Situation (2006) American Management Association ISBN 0-8144-7357-1
• Crunch Point: The 21 Secrets to Succeeding When It Matters Most (2006) American Management Association ISBN 978-0-8144-7371-9
• Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success (2008) ISBN 1-57675-497-9
• The Miracle of Self-discipline: The "No-Excuses" Way to Getting Things Done (2010) ISBN 1-908364-04-1

References[link]

External links[link]

• Brian Tracy International Official website
• Brian Tracy's Blog
• The Brian Tracy Executive MBA at Andrew Jackson University
• Works by or about Brian Tracy in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Gino Paoli
Gino Paoli
Background information
Birth name	Gino Paoli
Born	(1934-09-23)23 September 1934 Monfalcone, Italy
Genres	Pop
Occupations	singer-songwriter, artist
Instruments	vocals
Years active	1959–present
Labels	RCA Italiana, Durium (Italy), Dischi Ricordi, Fonit Cetra
Associated acts	Ornella Vanoni
Website	ginopaoli.it

Gino Paoli (born 23 September 1934 in Monfalcone) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He wrote four masterpieces of Italian popular music: "Il cielo in una stanza", "Che cosa c'è", "Senza fine" and "Sapore di sale".

Biography[link]

Paoli was born in Monfalcone, a little town near Trieste, but moved very early to Genoa.

After several different jobs, he was called by Ricordi with his friends Luigi Tenco and Bruno Lauzi. His first success was the single "La gatta," which has been used in world language Italian task disks in America for middle schools and high schools.

Another early song was "Il cielo in una stanza" composed in 1959. According to Paoli, the lyrics had come to him while lying on the bed of a brothel. Looking at the purple ceiling, he thought, "Love can grow at any moment at any place".^[1] Mina's single release of the song topped the list of annual sales in Italy^[2] and reached Billboard Hot 100. Video performances of the song were included in the movies "Io bacio... tu baci" and "Appuntamento a Ischia". Later it was featured in the "Goodfellas" movie. Carla Bruni Sarkozy covered the song (mixing French with her native Italian) in her debut album ("Quelqu'un m'a dit").

Gino Paoli’s debut album – Gino Paoli was released in Italy on October 8, 1961 on Dischi Ricordi.^[3]

"Il cielo in una stanza" success was followed by "Sapore di sale" (1963), arranged by Ennio Morricone and believed to be his most famous song. In the same year he attempted suicide by shooting himself in the heart (the bullet is still inside his chest).

In 1974 he returned with the LP I semafori rossi non sono Dio, followed by Il mio mestiere (1977). Both showed a more mature inspiration than his 1960s works. In the 1980s Paoli produced a series of successful albums, and in 1985 he toured Italy together with Ornella Vanoni.

In 1987 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Communist Party. He abandoned politics in 1992 to pursue his music ambitions.

Autograph of Gino Paoli on the muretto of Alassio

He had a long relationship with actress Stefania Sandrelli. Their daughter, Amanda Sandrelli, is also an actress.

Discography[link]

• Gino Paoli (1961)
• Le cose dell'amore (1962)
• Basta chiudere gli occhi (1964)
• Gino Paoli allo Studio A (1965)
• Le canzoni per "Emmeti" (1966)
• Gino Paoli and The Casuals (1967)
• Le due facce dell'amore (1971)
• Rileggendo vecchie lettere d'amore (1971)
• Amare per vivere (1972)
• I semafori rossi non sono Dio (1974)
• Ciao, salutime un po' Zena (1975)
• Le canzoni di Gino Paoli' (1976, collection)
• Il mio mestiere (1977)
• La ragazza senza nome (1978)
• Il gioco della vita (1979)
• Ha tutte le carte in regola (1980)
• Averti addosso (1984)
• La luna e il Sig. Hyde (1984)
• Insieme (1985)
• Cosa farò da grande (1986)
• Sempre (1988)
• L'ufficio delle cose perdute (1988)
• Gino Paoli '89 dal vivo (1990, live)
• Matto come un gatto (1991)
• Senza contorno solo... per un'ora (1992)
• King Kong (1994)
• Amori dispari (1995)
• Appropriazione indebita (1996)
• Pomodori (1998)
• Per una storia (2000)
• Se (2002)
• Una lunga storia (2004)
• Ti ricordi? No non mi ricordo (2004)
• Gino Paoli & Arsen Dedic u Lisinskom (2005)

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Gino Paoli's official website

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gino Paoli

• A presentation of a work about Paoli's life