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.

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

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

Be open to new information and ideas.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of per sistence in creating new plans to take the place of those that fail.