Zig Ziglar

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.

I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can. – Catherine the Great

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

That’s how we do it… we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

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.

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

The real risk is doing nothing.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

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

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

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.