Zig Ziglar

There is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

When you make a promise, keep it.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

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.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

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

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.

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.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

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