Zig Ziglar

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

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.

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

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

It was incredible because it was forced humility. Previously, I would’ve looked at humility as more of a negative thing.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

Once you focus on your life’s objectives, you need to focus on your instructors to make sure they are qualified to teach you what you want to know. They should have already been where you want to go and have lived to tell about it.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Sometimes Tina Fey is like a very talented bungee-jumping expert. All it takes Tina to softly say, ‘We can do this, right?’ and I suddenly feel like I can jump off a bridge.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

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

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

Do not attempt to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Take action. Every story you’ve ever connected with, every leader you’ve ever admired, every puny little thing that you’ve ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

lf you don’t think everyday is a great day, try going without one.