See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition [Hardcover]

Zig Ziglar (Author)

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For more than three decades, Zig Ziglar, one of the great motivators of our age, has traveled the world, encouraging, uplifting, and inspiring audiences. His groundbreaking best seller, "See You at the Top," remains an authentic American classic. Its basic premise--you can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want--has guided generations of readers to personal success.

This revised and updated twenty-fifth anniversary edition stresses the importance of honesty, loyalty, faith, integrity, and strong personal character. "See You at the Top" emphasizes the value of a healthy self-image and shows how to build it. Personal goals are an essential part of any program for success. This important book tells you how to set--and achieve--those goals, and provides step-by-step instructions on how to change the way you think about yourself and your surroundings

"See You at the Top" is widely used by corporations large and small, schools, government agencies, correctional institutions, and sales organizations--wherever motivation and self-improvement are considered major priorities. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and has sold more than 1 million hardcover copies. Also available as an audiocassette. Zig Ziglar is the author of fifteen other books, including "Steps to the Top," "Dear Family," and "Confessions of a Happy Christian."

About the Author

Zig Ziglar is one of America’s most widely read and most listened to motivational speakers. Since 1970, he has traveled over five million miles across the world, delivering his powerful life-improvement messages, cultivating the energy of change.

A well-known authority on complete and balanced success, Ziglar has been recognized three times in the Congressional Record of the United States for his work with youth in the drug war and for his dedication to America and the free-enterprise system. Zig Ziglar’s corporation, Ziglar Training Systems, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is built on the same philosophies he expounds to his audiences--hard work, common sense, fairness, commitment, and integrity. His client list includes thousands of small and mid-sized businesses, Fortune 500 companies, U.S. government agencies, churches, schools, and nonprofit associations.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing; 25 edition (June 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565547063
• ISBN-13: 978-1565547063
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #21,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

  #100 in	Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Motivational
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62 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 9 Steps to Get to the Top, July 6, 2002

By	newchapter "newchapter" (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

Recommend this to everyone ~ it will help motivate you to reach your goals.

The premise is simple: We all hold the keys to our own success, and we deserve it. It is not accidental but deliberate and takes hard work.

1) Success starts with self-image because you are the only one who can make that possible. Before you convince anyone else, you have to convince yourself.

2) Successful people are ¡°Good Finders¡±; they look for the good in other people. ¡°You can have anything in your life, if you help others get what they want¡±. (page 57)

3) No goals = no game. Activity is not accomplishment. Don¡¯t be a wandering generality. Goals should be big, long range, daily and specific.

4) Unlimited possibilities. Records were meant to be broken. Until Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, most thought it was physically impossible. After his achievement, people broke the record constantly.

5) Work as a team. There is a limit to what you can accomplish by yourself. Example: Geese fly 72% farther by flying together.

6) Attitude is everything. It determines the outcome. While you cannot control the environment, you (and only you) can control your attitude. The pessimist says. ¡°I will believe it when I see it.¡± The optimist says, ¡°I will see it when I believe it.¡± (page 206)

7) Create good habits because habits define our lives. Example: The average teenage student watches 17,000 hours of television before they graduate high school.

8) Successful people enjoy their work.

9) Keep going. "The price of success is less than the price of failure". (page 33)

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A practical book suitable for everyone, September 18, 2003

By	"venus716" (Cheung Pui Shan,Venus,Department of Marketing, City University of Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

I really like this book because I learnt a lot from this book. Although this book is about philosophy, but only a little theory involved. The concept of this book is easy to understand. The main theme of this book is the six steps to the top. Here is the summary of the book:

Step 1 Self-image: If you have a positive image, you can do everything well.
Step 2 Your relationship with others: The way you see them is the way you treat them. So, you better find the ¡§good¡¨ in other people and in every situation.
Step 3 Goals: Everyone should have at least one goal. The goal should be fulfilled four requirements: i.Big Goals, ii. Goals must be Long-range, iii. Goals must be daily, iv.Goals must be specific.
Step 4 Attitude: A right mental attitude helps you to build a positive life attitude.
Step 5 Work: Most successful people are really enjoyed their job.
Step 6 Desire: People have their own desire will became more successful.

These 6 steps are really useful in our daily life. The concepts of this book are practical and positive. It teaches us how to built a better future. After I read this book, I really feel more confident to my work. It was because this book teaches us that we should believe the concept of ¡§I CAN¡¨. Once you believe in yourself, you can do everything well.

The only bad point of this book is too much emphasis on religion. I am not fully understood some stories are about religion. Some sentences are even directly copied from the Bible. All in all, I do really like to read this book.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good book for individual development and personal success, September 7, 2003

By	Cheng Chung Yan, Joanne (Department of Marketing, City University of Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

This book has many philosophies about how to get a better life. Zig Ziglar used of many real life examples and his personal experience to elaborate the formula to the top. Here are the six steps to the top:

1. Establish a healthy self-image: Image improves = performance improves
2. Build a good relationship with others: Always find ??Good?? in others
3. Set your goals: The only way to get to the top is to have a meaningful goal
4. Have a positive life attitude: React positively to negative situations
5. Work ?V Act now: Start your work to achieve the goals
6. Desire: Take whatever ability you have in whatever you are doing and utilize it to the maximum

Comments for book

1. Good self-help and practical book
It is a very good self-help book which helps you to build up a right mental attitude towards your life and your way of thinking. Those philosophies can be applied in the real world. For examples, no matter how the situation is, you attitude should be good all the time.

2. Easy to understand ?V by using examples and interesting stories
The formula to go to the top is easy to understand and very practical, for example, it suggests you to set your goals. Your goals should be big, long-range, daily and specific. It teaches you by illustrating how to set and what should it be very clearly.

3. Special way of problem solving - Strong faith in God and praying
Zig Ziglar is a Christian. His sharing of how to solve the difficulties by trusting and praying to the God is interesting. His past experience is one of the resources and problem solving method to the reader.