53 Zig Ziglar Quotes to Supercharge Your Business

1. "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

2. "Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalise on what comes."

3. "Success is not a destination, it's a journey."

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

5. "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

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

7. "If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."

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

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

10. "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

11. "Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

12. "You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

13. "Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have."

14. "If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."

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

16. "Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."

17. "It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you."

18. "You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."

19. "Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."

20. "A goal properly set is halfway reached."

21. "You don't have to be fast to be a winner; you just have to be faster than the one who's behind you."

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

23. "Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude."

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

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

26. "Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

27. "Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there."

28. "Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves."

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

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

31. "Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

32. "If you can dream it, you can achieve it."

33. "It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important."

34. "Success is dependent upon the glands—sweat glands."

35. "You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

36. "Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

37. "A goal properly set is halfway reached."

38. "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

39. "You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

40. "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love, and loyalty."

41. "The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you will have to be grateful for."

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

43. "Success is the progressive realisation of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals."

44. "You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

45. "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

46. "It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you."

47. "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

48. "You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there."

49. "Every choice you make has an end result."

50. "A goal properly set is halfway reached."

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

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

53. "Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future."