Zig Ziglar

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.

‘Someday’ is the day after you die.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

You must go forth into the world, with passion, courage in your conviction, and most importantly be true to yourself. I did it!

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

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

Vision is not enough – it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.