Zig Ziglar

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Take time to be kind and to say thank you.

Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

The successful entrepreneur’s unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

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.

Sometimes Tina Fey is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.