Zig Ziglar

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that’s not much – unless you’ve been warned that if you’re even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

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

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

Give yourself a little freedom to develop into something or someone you’d actually like to be.

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

If you want to earn more, learn more.