"Drug and Alcohol Rehab: Diana Nightingale Conversation".
In 1985, Nightingale was inducted into The National Association of Broadcasters National Radio Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the National Speakers Association Speaker Hall of Fame. In 1976, he won the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International. Nightingale won a gold record for the LP record album The Strangest Secret. Nightingale died on March 25, 1989, in Scottsdale, Arizona, of complications after heart surgery. It included his text, his illustrations, and incorporated space for a private journal. Just prior to his death during 1989, Nightingale created a new format for a book named The Winner’s Notebook. Nightingale's radio program, Our Changing World, became the most syndicated radio program ever, and was broadcast across the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, South Africa, the Bahamas, and 23 additional overseas countries, as well as the Armed Forces Network.Īfter his retirement, Nightingale and his wife, Diana, formed the company Keys Publishing. During 1987, Nightingale published his first book, Earl Nightingale’s Greatest Discovery. In 1987, Nightingale-Conant published another very successful audio book: Lead The Field. Also in 1960, he co-founded the Nightingale-Conant corporation with Lloyd Conant. It was titled, Think and Grow Rich: The Essence Of The Immortal Book By Napoleon Hill, Narrated by Earl Nightingale, and produced by Success Motivation Institute. During 1960, a condensed audio version of Think and Grow Rich was narrated by Nightingale.
'We become what we think about.' 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap.'" ĭuring 1956, he produced a spoken word record, The Strangest Secret, which sold more than a million copies, making it the first spoken-word recording to achieve Gold Record status. He realized that he had been reading the same truth over and over again, from the New Testament.to the works of Emerson. It came when he realized that the six words he read were the answer to the question he had been looking for! That, 'we become what we think about'. Quoting from the Earl Nightingale official website: "When he was 29, Earl's enlightenment had come to him as a bolt out of the blue while reading, Think and Grow Rich. During the autumn of 1949, Nightingale was inspired while reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Other than Pearl Harbor, it is unknown if Nightingale experienced combat.Īfter the war, Nightingale began work in the radio industry, which eventually resulted in work as a motivational speaker. He was an instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of fifteen surviving Marines aboard that day. When Nightingale was seventeen years old he joined the United States Marine Corps. She has continued working with Earl's commercial themes. After his father left, his mother relocated the family to a tent in nearby Tent City.ĭiana Nightingale is the widow of Earl Nightingale. His father, Earl the 4th, abandoned his mother during 1933. Nightingale was born in Long Beach during 1921.