021 | Earl Nightingale: “Success is the Progressive Realization of a Worthy Ideal.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2016
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Earl Nightingale is today’s featured speaker on our Flashback Friday episode of The Quote of The Day Show. Tune in and hear the very best definition for success you’ll ever hear.
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| 0:00.0 | Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal, and that is the quote of the day. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your host Sean Croxson of Sean Croxson.com. |
| 0:42.0 | Today's Friday, but it's not fan Friday. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm making today flashback Friday because we're going all the way back to 1950 to the Uber |
| 0:50.4 | popular recording, the strangest secret by Earl Nightingale. |
| 0:54.0 | Of course, Earl is one of the co-founders of Nightingale Conan. |
| 0:57.0 | And Bob Proctor talks a lot about the strangest secret. |
| 1:00.0 | Of course, Bob got the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill back in the 1950s. |
| 1:05.0 | I want to say it had changed his life. |
| 1:07.0 | But when Bob wasn't reading Think and Grow Rich, he was listening to the strangest secret over and over again. |
| 1:14.0 | He was actually listening to it in his car with a battery operated record player. |
| 1:19.0 | And he just kind of developed a skill of balancing the record player while he drove. |
| 1:23.0 | So you can listen to it over and over again. |
| 1:25.0 | So there's lots of good stuff in this recording. |
| 1:27.0 | It's about 35, 40 minutes long. |
| 1:29.0 | But in this episode, I'll play you the first eight minutes and some really good stuff in here. |
| 1:34.0 | So I hope you enjoyed. |
| 1:35.0 | Here's Earl. |
| 1:37.0 | I'd like to tell you about the strangest secret in the world. |
| 1:41.0 | Some years ago, the late Nobel Prize winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer was being interviewed in London. |
| 1:47.0 | And a reporter asked him, Dr. what's wrong with men today? |
| 1:51.0 | And then he said, men simply don't think. |
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