Zig Ziglar Quotes

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

Zig Ziglar

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Space
  • Media

• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Stone
  • New Things

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • Seriously

• Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Unfortunately

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Science
  • Short

• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Leader
  • United States
  • Run

• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Best
  • New York

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Faith
  • Religious

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Power
  • Morality

• I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

  

  James Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • Son

• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Idea
  • Induce
  • Critical Mass

• When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

  

  Chris Lilley

• The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Time
  • Book
  • Remember

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

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

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Trust