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.

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

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

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

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

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.

Aim for the highest

Everyone lives by selling something.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

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

I’ve never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it’s almost never true altruism.

Rules are meant to be broken.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.