Zig Ziglar

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

Fear has two meaning; ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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

We want people who hate to lose, like myself.

I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.

We don’t get what we want, we get what we think we deserve… ask for more.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

I’d be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.