Zig Ziglar

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.

Make today worth remembering.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Only men of character are trusted.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

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

Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.

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

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Thinking expansively includes seeing what is possible and making it happen.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.