Zig Ziglar

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

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Surround your mind with healthy thoughts, thoughts of faith, and not fear, and you will produce faith results instead of fear results.

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.