Zig Ziglar

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

The successful entrepreneur’s unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

You have nothing to lose. Everything you have acquired of value is locked inside you.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Americans never quit.

Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Someday is not a day of the week.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.