Zig Ziglar

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

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

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Being comfortable can hurt your creative entrepreneurial spirit.

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.

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.