Zig Ziglar

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don’t take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death’s valley.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

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.

If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Someday is not a day of the week.

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

Precision, instinct and tempo are all necessary in order to become extraordinary.