17 Inspirational Sales & Marketing Quotes to Honor Zig Ziglar

Today, we’re very sad to have lost the legendary Zig Ziglar after a short battle with pneumonia at age 86. Widely known for his motivational speeches and corporate training to help better people’s lives and careers, Ziglar inspired many businesses, salespeople, and marketers — in addition to countless others — by showing us the “The Ziglar Way.”
Ziglar was the author of more than 29 sales and motivational books, including See You at the Top and Over the Top . Because he has motivated so many marketers and salespeople throughout his more than 50-year long career, we thought a great way to honor his life would be to compile a list of some of our favorite Zig Ziglar quotations — quotations that any marketer, salesperson, or business can learn from.

17 Motivational Quotes to Honor Zig Ziglar

1) “Every choice you make has an end result.”

2) “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

3) “Your business is never really good or bad ‘out there.’ Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.”

4) “People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.”

5) “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

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

7) “Remember that failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”

8) “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.”

9) “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

10) “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”

11) “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”

12) “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”

13) “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”

14) “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.”

15) “Timid salesmen have skinny kids.”

16) “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.”

17) “Stop selling. Start helping.”

Zig Ziglar will be greatly missed, but we can still all learn a lot from his motivational wisdom. Thank you, Zig.

To leave your condolences for Zig, his website asks that you visit his official Facebook Page here .

Thanks to Hubspot for the idea to post Zig’s quotes!