Zig Ziglar

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

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

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

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.

If you put that effort in, you’ll get what you want.

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

Lack of direction not lack of time is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

To be successful you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, and then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Business is there if you go after it.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.

When you do your best to live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

It’s always good to be underestimated.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.