Top 88 Zig Ziglar Quotes

If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I’m convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.

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 learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

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

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.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

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.

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.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

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

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

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

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

I’m a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word ‘grow.’

Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!

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.

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.

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.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

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

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.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

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

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

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

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.

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.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

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.

Dreams grow if you grow.

You’ve got to be before you can do and do before you can have.

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

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

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

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

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.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

Only men of character are trusted.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

I’m convinced that what kids need today are parents – not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

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.

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.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

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

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

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.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

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.

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

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

Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

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.