Zig Ziglar

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

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

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

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

I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

You will reap what you sow,’ rings true again. And you will be reaping it. A good thing to think about.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The harder I work, the luckier I get. When you have momentum going, play the momentum.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Seek not outside yourself for success lies within.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.