“To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.”
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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
“Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.”
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Zig Ziglar
“And if you’ve got the wrong plans, I don’t care how many positive qualities you’ve got, you’re going to end up in the wrong place.”
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Zig Ziglar
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
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Zig Ziglar
“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Knowledge is knowing a basket, wisdom is not putting water into it.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.”
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Zig Ziglar
“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.”
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Zig Ziglar
“Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.”
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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.”
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Zig Ziglar
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
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Zig Ziglar
“the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick.
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Zig Ziglar
