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: #137469 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-25
• 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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Customer Reviews

bigot
a few nuggets here an there on this one but all in all not worth my time reading trough ringers constant bashing of society other authors and life all together.

what a jackass

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.