Zig Ziglar

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

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

Hope will never be silent.

Think Big and make it happen.

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.

I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

If something is going to affect your life, it’s best to know as much as you can about it.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is what the majority of men do. That is why the majority is just ordinary.

There is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Take action. Every story you’ve ever connected with, every leader you’ve ever admired, every puny little thing that you’ve ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

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.