Zig Ziglar

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 successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

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

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot in front of the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

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.

Surround your mind with healthy thoughts, thoughts of faith, and not fear, and you will produce faith results instead of fear results.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then, all of a sudden, you change the world.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’

Every man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential – unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Fear has two meaning; ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that is how we grow.

I was afraid to show you this 300 acres that I just purchased that I’m building my first community on – my first five properties on – because I felt like it would be shut down.