Zig Ziglar

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength.

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

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

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

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

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

All you need to be a success is ignorance and self confidence.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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

Priority is a function of context.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

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

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

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

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.