Zig Ziglar

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

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

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

An entrepreneur’s ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion.

There is no need to be afraid of having faults, because knowing we have them can help us to improve.

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.

I believe in the Golden Rule. The Man with the Gold, Rules.

Your income rarely exceeds your personal development.

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

Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

We will either find a way or make one.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Don’t underestimate yourself or your possibilities.