Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Just saying you are better than good won’t make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

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

I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label – being an outsider is fine, embrace the label – because it’s the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn’t it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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.

Give yourself a little freedom to develop into something or someone you’d actually like to be.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.