Zig Ziglar

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength.

If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

Really good people like me are scared of falling off. I’m totally scared of falling off. Just imagine it. Just imagine if I woke up one day and I was wack. What would I do then?

Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.