Earl Nightingale Biography and Quotes
Birthday: March 12th, 1921
Commemoration: March 25th, 1989
Nationality: American
68
Years Old
Famously Known For
Nightingale is famously remembered as a great author and radio speaker.
Earl was inducted to the National Speakers Association hall of fame and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of fame.
Early Life
Earl was born to Earl the 4th in 1921 in Long Beach. In 1933, Earls father abandoned his wife, and Earls mother was forced to relocate his family to a temporary shelter in Tent city. His mother worked as a seamstress at a sewing factory, and the income from that job helped her to raise her two sons. Growing in a low-income family disturbed young Earl so much that he strived so hard to understand why some people were poor while others were rich and how one could move from rags to riches. As a result, he read a lot on religion, psychology, and philosophy, which contributed much into his knowledge applied in his talks.
Career
After the second world war, Nightingale joined the radio industry, focusing on motivational talks which paved way for his success in motivational speaking. FOR OVER 40 YEARS, Nightingale served in Radio and became a favorite of many listeners. During his Radio time, he authored ‘the Strangest Secret which was considered as one of the greatest motivational books ever to exist. The book was then recorded into audio in 1956 and sold more than a million copies. The sales recorded made Earl’s spoken record to become the first Spoken-word record of attaining the Gold Record status in the US.
IN 1960, Earl Nightingale together with Lloyd Conant, founded the Nightingale-Conant corporation which published audiobooks. The first successful audiobook published by the Nightingale-Conant corporation was “Lead the Field.”
Earl Nightingale had his radio program known as, ‘Our Changing World.’ The show became the most aired by different media outlets in the USA, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and Mexico.
Death
Earl Nightingale died of complications following heart surgery in 1989, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
