Zig Ziglar

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

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

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

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of Are makes a small amount of heat.

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

Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Stumbling is not the same as falling.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

Great people do things before they’re ready.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can’t dream about it anymore. It’s easier to settle for less.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit.

If something is going to affect your life, it’s best to know as much as you can about it.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

Precision, instinct and tempo are all necessary in order to become extraordinary.