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Zig Ziglar Quotes

1926–2012 United States

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6 1926 – November 28 2012) was an American self-help author and speaker.

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Also known as: Ziglar, Zig

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000)

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators (2004)

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009)

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

Trigger Events – How To Find Your Next Customer (2007)

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Secrets of Closing the Sale (1984)

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

See You at the Top (2000)

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

See You at the Top (2000)

People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

Better than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live (2007)

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.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

Created for Excellence : 12 keys to Godly Success (1996)

The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes."

Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000)

There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

See You at the Top (2000)

If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — in the trying, not the triumph.

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.

Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.

See You at the Top (2000)

When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.

See You at the Top (2000)

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

See You at the Top (2000)

Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.

See You at the Top (2000)

Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

See You at the Top (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zig Ziglar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.