If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig ZiglarRead
Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Planning is important, but being effective in a job is even more crucial for success.
This quote by Zig Ziglar highlights the common tendency for individuals to focus excessively on the logistics of securing a job rather than on the actions and mindset required to excel once they have it. It serves as a reminder that true productivity and success stem from dedication and hard work in the role itself, rather than just the pursuit of obtaining the position.
Themes
PlanningProductivitySuccessJobWork
In practice
Example use cases
In a job interview, one might reference this quote to emphasize the importance of being proactive and productive.
More from Zig Ziglar
All quotes βI read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
Zig ZiglarRead
You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.
Zig ZiglarRead
Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.
Zig ZiglarRead
Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.
Zig ZiglarRead
Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.
Zig ZiglarRead
Similar quotes
Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.
Peter DruckerRead
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
Francois GuizotRead
I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
Ralph FiennesRead
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
Frederick DouglassRead
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
Napoleon HillRead
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Francis Ford CoppolaRead