Zig Ziglar

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

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

Make today worth remembering.

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

Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.’

Don’t underestimate yourself or your possibilities.

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it – fight back!

Better an ‘oops’ than a ‘what if’.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

We want people who hate to lose, like myself.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.

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