Quotes: Zig Ziglar

With the passing of Zig Ziglar today, we felt the best way to remember him would be with some of his own words.

Zig Ziglar
1926 - 2012

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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. 

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.

The Wisdom of Success

What do successful people (and just as importantly, those that study successful people) have to say about success?

Here's an article from Under30CEO.com.

1. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” Tony Robbins

2. “You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.” Ruth E. Renkl

3. “The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” Socrates

4. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” John Wooden

5. “Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”  Abraham Lincoln

6. ” If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Jim Rohn

7. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” Anonymous

8. “When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.” 

Anonymous

9. “Screw it, Let’s do it!” Richard Branson

10. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” Baltasa

11. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs

12. “The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.” Norman Vincent Peale

To Plan or Not to Plan?

Want a new career?

"Plan" courtesy FEMA.

Want a better family life?

Want success and happiness?

What safety for your family and friends?  (That's where the insurance angle comes in.)

What's your plan?   It seems everyone has an opinion about "planning" or the lack there of.

Whether the plan works or not, it seems often planning took part in the process along the way to your final destination...good or bad.

Here are some quotes to ponder.


To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein 

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Margaret Thatcher 

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Harry S. Truman

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
Alan Rickman 

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee