Hilary Hinton Ziglar was born on the 6th November 1926, in Coffee County, Alabama USA and was an author, salesman as well as motivational speaker. He passed away in November 2012.
How much was the net worth of Zig Ziglar? Authoritative sources report that the overall size of Ziglar’s wealth is as much as $15 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016. The main source of Zig net worth was literature. The estimated annual earnings from his books are $2.5 million in 2015 alone, and Ziglar added sums to his wealth from other above mentioned engagements.
Zig Ziglar Net Worth $15 Million
To begin with, Zig was born to parents Lina Wescott Ziglar and John Silas Ziglar, and raised in a big family alongside eleven siblings. In 1931, the Ziglar family settled down on a farm in Yazzo City, Mississippi USA, as his father was appointed manager there. Unfortunately, the same year his father died from stroke, and to make matters worse, two days later one of his sisters died. From 1943 to 1945, Ziglar served in the USA Navy. It should also be mentioned that he was in the Navy V-12 Navy College Training Program as well as graduated from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
After graduation he found work as a salesman, and successfully worked in a number of companies. Eventually, he was promoted to the director for training and vice president of the Automotive Performance Company, based in Dallas, Texas, all of which provided a solid base to his net worth.
However, from 1975 to 2012, fourteen books written by Ziglar were released. His first book “See You at the Top” (1975) achieved the greatest success, although initially it had been rejected by some 30 publishers. Afterwards, Ziglar, released the books “Confessions Of A Happy Christian” (1978), “Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale” (1982), “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World” (1985), “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others” (1986), “Over the Top” (1988) as well as “Success for Dummies” (1998). In the 21st century, he continued writing publishing “Network Marketing For Dummies” (2001), “Selling 101: What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know” (2002) and “Confessions of a Grieving Christian” (2004). All contributed significantly to his net worth.
The author had also written his autobiography entitled “The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar” (2004). The last books written by Ziglar were “Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can’t Wait to Live” (2006), “Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life’s Terms” (2009) and “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code” (2012). Until 2010, he had been making speeches intended to motivate or inspire an audience, integrating Christianity.
Finally, in the personal life of the author, motivational speaker and salesman, he married Jean Ziglas in 1946, and they had four children, one of whom died in 1995. as well as seven grandchildren. Being 86, Zig Ziglar died from pneumonia in hospital in Plano, Texas in November 2012 – he rests in the cemetery of McKinney, Texas, USA.
