Zig Ziglar

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.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

All you need to be a success is ignorance and self confidence.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

A habit is like a cable: we weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot break it – so we must form good, positive, and productive habits.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

Make sure the product is worth your energy.

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.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.