Zig Ziglar

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

The great majority of people are wandering generalities rather than meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can’t hit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Dream big and dare to fail.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.

Someday is not a day of the week.

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

If you want to be rich… don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.