The Greatest Salesman in the World

"The Greatest Salesman in the World" was written by OG Mandino and should be a must-read for everyone regardless of what your professional background is.

"Everyone of us is a salesman, no matter what his occupation or profession. Most of all, first he must sell himself to himself in order to find personal happiness and peace of mind. This book, if carefully read and absorbed and heeded, can help every one of us to be his best salesman."

I read this book in one sitting and it was definitely an absorbing piece of literature. If one can make their best attempt to follow each of the lessons the scrolls suggest then I believe you can be on the right track to personal happiness and success.

Listed below are the summarizations of the scrolls as well as an accompanying prayer to follow. Hope you all can enjoy this book as much as I did.

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

• Today I begin a new life.
• I will greet this day with love in my heart.
• I will persist until I succeed.
• I am nature’s greatest miracle.
• I will live this day as if it is my last.
• Today I will be the master of my emotions.
• I will laugh at the world.
• Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
• I will act now.


Oh creator of all things, help me. For this day I go out into the world naked and alone, and without your hand to guide me I will wonder far from happiness.

I ask not for gold or garments or even opportunities equal to my ability; instead, guide me so that I may acquire ability equal to my opportunities.

You have taught the lion and the eagle how to hunt and prosper with teeth and claw. Teach me how to hunt with words and prosper with love so that I may be a lion among man and an eagle in the market place.

Help me to remain humble through obstacles and failures; yet hide not from mine eyes the prize that will come with victory.

Assign me tasks to which others have failed; yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. Confront me with fears that will temper my spirit; yet endow me with courage to laugh at my misgivings.

Spare me sufficient days to reach my goals; yet help me to live this day as though it be my last.

Discipline me in the habit of trying and trying again; yet show me the way to make use of the law of averages. Favor me with alertness to recognize opportunity; yet endow me with patience which will concentrate my strength.

Expose me to hate so it not be a stranger; yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends.

But all these things be only if thy will. I am a small and a lonely grape clutching to the vine yet thou hast made me different from all others. Verily, there must be a special place for me. Guide me. Help me. Show me the way.

Let me become all you planned for me when my seed was planted and selected by you to sprout in the vineyard of the world.

Help this humble man.
Guide me, God.