Zig Ziglar

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

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

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

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.

Creativity and control can go hand in hand.

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

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done.

Business is there if you go after it.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!