Zig Ziglar Quotes

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.

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

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness.

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose.

You build a better company by building better people.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

It makes no difference where you go ...there you are.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

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

I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.

Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.

A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.

Only men of character are trusted.

It's our responsibility to see to it that the good outweighs the evil and I am convinced beyond a doubt that today's Americans will do exactly that!

Every day is a good day, and if you don't believe me, just try missing one of them.

Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never-ending journeys.

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

You can only see in others what is inside of you.

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.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

People often say motivation doesn't last. But neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation