Bob Proctor
The Blue Ocean Bob Philosophy: Inspirational Author
For over 40 years, Bob Proctor has focused on teaching people to use the power of their minds to achieve prosperity, rewarding relationships and spiritual awareness. As the best-selling author of You Were Born Rich, an expert featured in the phenomenally successful film The Secret and the founder of LifeSuccess Productions, Bob Proctor has transformed the lives of millions through his books, seminars, courses and personal coaching.
Bob Proctor is a direct link to the modern science of success, stretching back to Andrew Carnegie, the great financier and philanthropist. Carnegie’s secrets inspired and enthused Napoleon Hill, whose book, Think and Grow Rich, in turn inspired a whole genre of success philosophy books. Napoleon Hill passed the baton on to Earl Nightingale who has since placed it in Bob Proctor’s capable hands.
Earl Nightingale
The Blue Ocean Bob Philosophy: Inspirational Author
Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) was a Depression-era child with a thirst for knowledge. He wanted to know how a person with no particular advantage in the world could reach his or her goals while also making a major contribution to others. His lifelong desire to find an answer to this question motivated him to become one of the world’s foremost experts on the principles of success. After surviving the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941, Earl began a prolific career in network radio and business. He hosted his own daily radio show and later bought an insurance company. At the urging of an employee, Earl recorded some of his motivational words for his sales force. The result was The Strangest Secret, the first spoken word recording to sell over a million copies. Shortly thereafter, Earl met Lloyd Conant, a successful businessman, and together they founded an electronic publishing company that grew to be a multi-million dollar giant in the self-improvement field. Earl and Lloyd created Our Changing World, a five-minute daily radio program that became the longest-running, most widely syndicated show in radio. Many of Earl’s messages from these programs were assembled into the book, This Is Earl Nightingale (1969). For five years, Earl served as a mentor to Bob Proctor at Nightingale-Conant Corporation.
Napoleon Hill
The Blue Ocean Bob Philosophy: Inspirational Author
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) began at an early age to study great achievers such as Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell. In 1908, Carnegie challenged Hill to create a comprehensive philosophy of achievement and offered to introduce Hill to over five hundred of the most successful men and women of their time. Hill accepted the challenge. After twenty years of research, Hill became the world’s foremost scholar and thinker in the science of human success. He wrote numerous books, including The Law of Success (1928), Think and Grow Rich (1937), and, with W. Clement Stone, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1959). Think and Grow Rich is one of the best-selling books of all time and has been included on bestseller lists for more than fifty years. Napoleon Hill advised respected business and political leaders, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Woodrow Wilson. Napoleon Hill’s books form the basis for modern motivational literature and teach an achievement formula that puts success within the reach of the average person.
Wallace Delois Wattles
The Blue Ocean Bob Philosophy: Inspirational Author
Wallace Delois Wattles (1860–1911) was the author of a number of books including The Science of Being Great and The Science of Being Well. But he is best known for his succinct prosperity classic, The Science of Getting Rich. Wattles, born shortly after the Civil War, experienced much failure in his earlier years. Later in life, he diligently studied world religions and the philosophies of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Swedenborg, Emerson, and others. Through these efforts, he discovered the truth of New Thought principles and he put them into practice in his own life. He began to write books outlining these principles and actively practiced creative visualization to help him become a successful writer and educator of New Thought ideas.
