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Books by David J. Schwartz

Born in 1927, David J. Schwartz was a professor of marketing at Georgia State University and the founder of a successful consultancy company – Creative Educational Services Inc. – which specialized in life strategy and leadership development. However, he is today most famous as the author of “The Magic of Thinking Big,” a book that catapulted him into stardom and made him “the leading American authority on motivation” throughout the 1970s. Schwartz passed away in 1987 at the age of 60.

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The Magic of Thinking Big

David J. Schwartz

One of Simon & Schuster’s all-time paperback bestsellers, “The Magic of Thinking Big” by David J. Schwartz reveals why self-believe is the cornerstone of success and shares numerous practical pieces of advice on how people can develop their power of belief, set their goals high and devise a concrete success-building program to not only meet them – but exceed them as well.

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