Zig Ziglar

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

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

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

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

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they’ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don’t.

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

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It’s how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It’s how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It’s the language we use.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time.

Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

Every choice you make has an end result.

It’s easy to say no! when there’s a deeper yes! burning inside.