Zig Ziglar

How you see the future is much more important than what happened in your past.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.

I’m convinced that what kids need today are parents – not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

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

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.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

The more you prospect, the more you prosper.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of per sistence in creating new plans to take the place of those that fail.

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.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

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

You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going.

I believe in the Golden Rule. The Man with the Gold, Rules.

Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible.