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Og Mandino — On Salespeople.
I read his classic book so you don't have to.
Og Mandino’s book, “The Greatest Salesman In The World” is worth the read. At least, I really liked it. Perhaps I enjoyed writing this post more than reading the book. It allowed me the opportunity to relive this incredible adventure.
Just a note. I don’t necessarily agree with everything the book states. But I will report on what I find in the text objectively and let you decide how to interpret his writings. Although I sincerely enjoyed the book, I find that Mandino goes a bit far at times. He seems to infer that his book might be substituted for sacred writings such as the Bible. Mandino’s book is good, but, sorry, it's not that good. ;-)
A fictional protagonist, Hafid, a master of many, finds himself at the center of a classic rags-to-riches story. We are introduced to Hafid as a wealthy, albeit older, man. With an unusual and abrupt command to his servant, Erasmus, the aging master liquidates his entire estate and converts it to the currency of the day, gold. His estate was estimated by Erasmus to be seven million gold talents.
According to simple.wikipedia.org, one talent has a weight of about 33 kg. So seven million gold talents would be 231,000,000 kg of gold. That golden stack of metal would be worth somewhere near $13 Trillion US…
