Product Description

Robert Ringer's books have created a revolution in the self-development genre and shown millions the way to personal and professional achievement. Filled with humorous and enriching anecdotes Action!, exhorts the reader when you close the book, to get up out of your chair and take action now. Action is life, and life is meant to be lived.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #276075 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Bestselling self-help author Ringer's main theme is that people need to take personal action in order to get what they want from life. This truism is explored and coupled with other factors such as honesty, self-discipline, adversity, personal values and how these things help or get in the way of promoting positive action. As in his previous books, Ringer (Winning Through Intimidation) employs a narrative style that allows the reader to explore behavior through anecdotes and examples. Occasionally, the book takes on a self-protective slant as Ringer strives to point out ways in which other people will become obstacles to success by making life complicated and unpleasant. The author doesn't readily hide his disdain for people with whom he has a difference of opinion, and he often seems overly interested in promoting his own views and beliefs in the areas of religion, politics, diet, race and business, making the book seem more like a series of morality plays than a practical guide. The meandering prose style occasionally makes it hard to focus on and extract the lessons being offered. Still, Ringer does tell many captivating anecdotes that help to illustrate the points he is making and offers a wide-ranging perspective on how adopting certain moral behaviors can help to bring about success and happiness. Illus.
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About the Author
Robert Ringer is the author of seven books, including three best sellers. He has appeared on numerous American talk shows, and has been featured in such publications as Time, People, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Barron's, and the New York Times. His books have been read by an estimated 10 million people and translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.

Customer Reviews

This book holds the key to success plain and simple.
I liked this book so much I often buy it for friends and associates and recommend they read it. Action is the key to success and the lack of it is the number one factor I see why people never reach their goals or attain what they really want in life.

There's no denying that Ringer's sound advice and straight to the point methods work. I found this book an easy read and extremely motivating.

Lots of Gems in this mine...
Robert Ringer's Action! is a surprisingly--to me, anyway--deep yet conversational meditation on the nature and mystery of the principle of action in human life. Why "surprising"? Well, as just one example, Ringer's brief discussion of how "Action Produces Genius, Magic, and Power" improves upon the contemplations of no less than the great poet and philosopher Goethe. No small achievement in a breezy few pages! His reflections on the many facets of action, combined with often charming anecdotes, are worth coming back to--often. If the illustrations and some of Ringer's opinions and stories don't speak to you (some didn't to me), don't let that keep you away from the gems to be mined here. If you're already a person of action, this book will ground your motion in wisdom; and if you're more of a thinking or feeling type, it'll help you get your contemplative pedal onto the action--and results!--metal.
--Saniel Bonder, author, Healing the Spirit/Matter Split, The Spiritual Entrepreneur

Get Moving and Make Something Happen
This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. The title alone is motivating and is in fact a quote from Albert Einstein. The author makes a strong case for making bold moves to get change in your life. It is written in an easy to read format, yet has deep content with spirituality and some science. This is different type of book from his first one "Winning Through Intimidation" now called "To Be or Not to Be Intimidated". This book shares the author's years of experience about what it really takes to be successful. I highly recommend it.