Zig Ziglar Quotes
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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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.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
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You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
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I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
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True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
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I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
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Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory.
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Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.