“I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”
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Zig Ziglar
“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
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Zig Ziglar
“A poet stated it more succinctly when he wrote, “I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.” Interestingly enough, you will discover that when you read this book a second time, you will get more thoughts and more ideas than you did the first time. This is especially true if you read a few minutes every day before you start your day’s activities and just before you go to sleep.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?”
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Zig Ziglar
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
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Zig Ziglar
“You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Positive thinking won’t allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will.”
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Zig Ziglar
“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”
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Zig Ziglar
“If you believe as I do that you were born to win, you’re going to have to find your fears and start facing them.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Several years ago on an extremely hot day, a crew of men were working on the road bed of the railroad when they were interrupted by a slow moving train. The train ground to a stop and a window in the last car— which incidentally was custom made and air conditioned—was raised. A booming, friendly voice called out, “Dave, is that you?” Dave Anderson, the crew chief called back, “Sure is, Jim, and it’s really good to see you.” With that pleasant exchange, Dave Anderson was invited to join Jim Murphy, the president of the railroad, for a visit. For over an hour the men exchanged pleasantries and then shook hands warmly as the train pulled out. Dave Anderson’s crew immediately surrounded him and expressed astonishment that he knew Jim Murphy, the president of the railroad, as a personal friend. Dave then explained that twenty-three years earlier he and Jim Murphy had started work at the railroad on the same day. One of the men, half jokingly and half seriously, asked Dave why he was still working out in the hot sun and Jim Murphy had gotten to be president. Rather wistfully, Dave explained, “Twenty-three years ago I went to work for $1.75 an hour and Jim Murphy went to work for the railroad.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Are you a meaningful specific or a wandering generality ?”
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Zig Ziglar
