Zig Ziglar

Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.

Selling is something we do for our clients – not to our clients.

I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

If you don’t get out there and try to solve your own problems, it’s never going to change.

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

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man…only five hundred.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m a driver… I love driving.. I’m driven.

Selling is something we do for our clients – not to our clients.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

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

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

The world moves along at such a fast clip that we have little patience when things are slow, whether it’s the line at a supermarket or Internet access. We’ve become intolerant of those things that cannot be accelerated or skipped entirely. I can’t speed up the foundation work for a building, nor can I expect to play piano like Glenn Gould just because I want to.