Zig Ziglar

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Stop selling. Start helping.

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.

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Yes, it’s absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you can learn to do it well.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

You never fail until you stop trying.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.