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Jack Canfield is an American author and a motivational speaker with an estimated net worth of $20 million. This motivational speaker has managed to accumulate his net worth from the sales of his several successful books, as well as many of his appearances in different television talk shows. In addition to that, a big portion of his wealth also comes from the organizations he found - 'Transformation leadership counsel' (TLC) and the 'Foundation For Self Esteem' (FSE).

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Born on August 19, 1944, in Texas USA, Jack Canfield has emerged to be one of the world's best-selling authors from Fort Worth. He is also credited for being a co-creator of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul books series. This book series has had more than 200 titles and has so far managed to sell over 112 million copies of the books in 40 different languages. Chicken soup and several other books written by Canfield have been ranked in the past 15 years as being among the top 150 best-selling books of all time.

Canfield started out as a workshop facilitator, teacher, and physiotherapist. This was after he had graduated from Linsly Military Institute for his high school education before receiving a Chinese History BA from Harvard University. He later went for a MEd at the University of Massachusetts in 1973 before being named as one of the ten most outstanding men of America (TOYA) in 1978 by the American Jaycees. Since then, he has managed to be a consistent author and motivational speaker, commonly known for some of his most renown seminars like the ' the breakthrough to success'.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2018

Asset

Current value of Jack Canfield's website jackcanfield.com

$53,800

2018

Book Sales

Sales of the Chicken Soup for the Soul puzzle books from licensee Kappa Books (approximately 5 million copies sold)

$19,500,000

2018

Earnings

Total worldwide retail sales of Chicken Soup for the Soul-branded products

$2,000,000,000

2018

Book Sales

Sales of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books that have been translated into 43 languages and published in over 100 countries (approximately 500 million copies sold)

$12,000,000

2017

Salary

Annual salary as the founder and CEO of The Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California and founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver City, California

$97,000

2011

Asset

Estimated value of Jack Canfield's oceanfront estate in West Maui, Hawaii

$15,900,000

2006

Others

Sales of the documentary video The Secret as himself

$65,620,000

1992

Royalties

Estimated earnings from the Chicken Soup for the Soul series (123 million copies sold worldwide)

$12,300,000

1967

Salary

Annual salary as a high school teacher in Chicago, Illinois

$8,000