Top 784 Quotes & Sayings by Zig Ziglar - Page 2

Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

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

If you want to earn more, learn more.

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

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

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

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.

Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

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

Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!

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.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

When you make a promise, keep it.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

Dreams grow if you grow.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

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

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

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.

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.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

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

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.