Zig Ziglar

We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.

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

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

Stop selling. Start helping.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

[on Michelle] After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right!

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

He didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.

There’s no doubt I’m a better man having spent time with Michelle. I would never say that Michelle’s a better woman, but I will say she’s a little more patient.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

This is my first marriage. Beforehand, I was living in sin.

What Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.