Zig Ziglar People Quotations

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

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

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

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.

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.

I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.

You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.

Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.

Things don't just happen, people make them happen

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.

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

When you make people feel important, you're going to be ahead of the game.

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

Far too many people make promises they can never keep. They may have the best intentions in the world to keep their promise-but if they have not made a plan to keep it, they will not be able to do it.

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.

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Many people say, "When I get a million dollars, then I'll be happy because I'll have security," but that's not necessarily so. Most people who acquire a million dollars want another and then another. Or they could be like a good friend of mine who made and lost every dime of a million dollars. It didn't bother him a bit. He wasn't excited about it, but he explained to me, "Zig, I still know everything necessary to make another million dollars, and I've learned what to do not to lost it. I'll simply go back to work and earn it again.

All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval--not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.

Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

People who won’t take step number one never take step number two.

People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.

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

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

People don't buy drills they buy holes

Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

Surround yourself with optimistic people.

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.

You build a better company by building better people.

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

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen.