Author: Zig Ziglar

Happiness Is …

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Many years ago, Abraham Lincoln said that most of us are about as happy as we make up our minds to be. Somewhat more recent studies done by David Meyers of Hope College in Holland, Mich., and Ed Dyner of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, indicate that happy people have four things in common: […]

 

The Truth About Family Values

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One of the ongoing discussions we hear is that of family values. There are some who try to identify them; others say there are no established family values. The reason people have been unable to isolate and identify family values, in my opinion, is very simple: There are no “family” values because the values that […]

 

You Can Make a Difference

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In March of 1993, a 14-year-old student from Haltom City, Texas, killed a policeman and seriously wounded three of his neighbors. In the exchange of gunfire, he was killed. There has been much speculation about this tragedy. Outwardly, things seemed normal. His father was on the police force. They were a middle-class, law-abiding family. The […]

 

The 80/20 Rule

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In the early 1900s, Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian engineer-economist-sociologist, developed what he called the “80/20 rule.” His research indicated that in a business, 20 percent of the items accounted for 80 percent of the business and that roughly 20 percent of the population controlled roughly 80 percent of its wealth. Since then, others have incorrectly […]