The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can’t bit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals. Zig Ziglar
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. Zig Ziglar
The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens – or doesn´t happen – the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then – after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it – the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months! Zig Ziglar
Success is in 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. If we do our best, we are a success. Zig Ziglar
You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time… the habit takes over. Zig Ziglar
It’s not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that’s important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself. Zig Ziglar
It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have. Zig Ziglar
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily. Zig Ziglar
Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become. Zig Ziglar
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. Zig Ziglar
Biography
Hilary Hinton “Zig” Ziglar who was born in Alabama in 1926, is a legendary figure in the field of motivational speaking. The son of John Silas Ziglar and Lila He was born prematurely in Coffee County, Alabama. Out of a total of 12, he was the tenth and the youngest boy.
Ziglar’s early years were spent in Yazoo City, Mississippi after his family relocated there in 1931 when Ziglar was five years old. His father had accepted a post as farm manager in Mississippi. The following year, both his father and sister passed away suddenly.
Ziglar dropped out of college in 1947 and moved to Lancaster, South Carolina, where he got a job selling cookware for the WearEver company. Around this time, he became interested in motivational speaking for the first time. Ziglar was given the job of field manager in 1950, and later he was promoted to divisional supervisor.
Ziglar became interested in self-help and motivational speaking while he was working at the company, and he started giving his own speeches. Ziglar was a founding member of American Salesmasters in 1963, along with Richard “Dick” Gardner and Hal Krause. The company’s goal was to improve how Americans saw salespeople by giving seminars. With speakers like Ziglar, Norman Vincent Peale, Ken McFarland, Cavett Robert, Bill Gove, Maxwell Maltz, and Red Motley. They reserved an auditorium, made a list of speakers, and reached out to local businesses to sell tickets. Audiences included insurance agents, car salespeople, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and people who were just curious.
Later, he established Zigmanship Institute, now known as Ziglar Inc. After that, Ziglar did a lot of speaking at Peter Lowe’s seminars and ultimately secured an exclusive arrangement to back Peter Lowe events.
Ziglar was also an author, penning more than 30 books in addition to his spoken work. See You at the Top, his debut novel was turned down by publishers 39 times before they accepted it. It is still in print.
Ziglar hired and mentored a number of public speakers in Addison, Texas, among them Will Harris.
Long after Zig Ziglar’s retirement in 2010 and the handover of Ziglar Inc. to his son, and even after his death on November 28, 2012, “The Ziglar Way” has been adopted as a way of life by many individuals. People are still inspired by his words years after they were first spoken because of the profound and lasting effect they had on their thoughts. Zig Ziglar is an American treasure; his legacy will live on as an unrivaled name and personality in the realms of inspiration and hard work and as an accomplished speaker of the first kind.
See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar
