Top 94 Ernie J Zelinski Quotes
#1. When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
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#2. Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.
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#3. Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.
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#4. Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.
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#5. Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.
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#6. Don't Mess Around with Reality and Reality Won't Mess Around with You.
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#7. The longer you work, the more money you'll have for retirement. But the longer you work, the less time you'll have to enjoy that retirement. - Wall Street Journal
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#8. According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!
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#9. Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!
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#11. The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.
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#12. There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.
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#13. Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.
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#14. Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.
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#15. Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.
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#16. Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.
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#17. you can accomplish more than you think you can. most of your limitations are in your mind.
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#18. Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.
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#19. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.
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#20. Always feeling rushed is no way for a prosperity-minded individual to live. The objective of life is not to get through it as fast as possible.
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#22. If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself.
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#23. Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?
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#24. Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.
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#25. It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.
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#26. Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.
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#29. Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.
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#30. You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So..
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#31. Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.
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#32. If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.
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#34. Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy you peace, love, or happiness.
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#35. Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been
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#36. Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.
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#37. Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.
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#38. Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
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#39. Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
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#40. If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!
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#41. If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?
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#42. Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.
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#43. Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me.
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#44. Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?
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#45. If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!
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#46. Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life
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#47. Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours?
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#48. Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.
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#49. Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.
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#50. Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.
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#51. Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always.
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#52. Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.
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#53. What Is Your WOW Factor? This applies to both the service that you provide to the world and the way you market it. Make it edgy, make it snappy, and make it punchy. Even make it raunchy - but make it different! Real different!
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#54. A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.
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#56. You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.
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#57. If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.
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#58. The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.
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#59. Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!
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#60. You are fooling yourself whenever you think you are productive just because you have worked fourteen hours in a day. You will be truly productive when you do the same amount of work in four hours, and take the other ten hours to enjoy the good things life has to offer.
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#61. If you always do the easy and comfortable thing, life ends up being difficult and uncomfortable. If you do the difficult and uncomfortable thing, however, life ends up being easy and comfortable.
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#62. Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.
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#63. If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.
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#64. To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.
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#66. Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.
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#67. Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.
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#68. Two people look at the same Exercise above: One sees "Opportunity Is Nowhere" and one sees "Opportunity Is Now Here."
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#69. Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy
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#70. Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
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#71. When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.
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#72. Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.
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#73. I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich.
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#74. Talking about creativity is useless if you don't do anything magical with yours.
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#75. Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?
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#76. Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.
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#77. Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!
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#78. Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.
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#80. Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.
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#82. Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it.
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#83. Your prosperity and happiness will ultimately be determined by the enrichment you create for others in this world. If whatever you are doing does not enrich your life, or that of others, then it's time to do something else.
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#84. Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.
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#85. Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.
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#86. Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.
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#87. Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
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#88. So many worlds,
So much to see and do,
So little seen
and done by others,
means many more things
to be seen and done
by extraordinary you.
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#90. If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person
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#91. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.
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#92. Opportunity can't reward you with its many gifts if you fail to recognize it and act on it. What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made from the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Let the good times roll!
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#93. Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!
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#94. Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.
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