Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

Happiness is the ability to move forward knowing the future will be better than the past.

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

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.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.

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

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

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

Dream big and kick ass.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage, but simply because they have never organised their energies around a goal.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

I’m wary of what goal I set, because then I’ll have to accomplish it.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.