Zig Ziglar

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient and the best things come to those who don’t give up.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible.

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorised.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they are always there.

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

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