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Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Zig Ziglar

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Zig Ziglar
Age: 86 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 6
Died: 2012
Died: November 28
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Motivational Speaker
Writer
Coffee County
Alabama
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Success
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Business
People
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A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others.
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Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.
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Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
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Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable.
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When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen.
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Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
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When you encourage others, you, in the process, are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.
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People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.
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Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
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That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in our children, the more good qualities we are going to find.
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When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.
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At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
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God showed me that He could and would replace everything that was missing in my life, but that nothing could replace Him in my life.
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A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
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