Zig Ziglar

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

Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead!

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.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Once you focus on your life’s objectives, you need to focus on your instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived to tell about it.

In the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that’s not much – unless you’ve been warned that if you’re even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

The ability to manage well doesn’t make much difference if you’re not even in the right jungle.

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

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.

Priority is a function of context.

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

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.