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If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.

Zig Ziglar

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Zig Ziglar
Age: 86 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 6
Died: 2012
Died: November 28
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Coffee County
Alabama
Business
Wait
Light
Green
Home
Growth
Never
Leave
Started
Procrastination
Wise
Trip
Waiting
Lights
Success
Greatness

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