091 | Zig Ziglar: “When You Do More Than You’re Paid to Do, You Will Eventually Be Paid More For What You Do.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
As Zig Ziglar says, work is the price we pay to travel the highway of success. In other words, if you want to be successful you have to work. There’s no getting around it. And when you love your work, you will reap its rewards many times over. It never fails.
On today’s episode, Zig states his case for establishing strong work habits, enjoying your work, and how to get paid more for what you do.
This clip comes from Zig’s audio program, Goals: How to Set Them, How to Reach Them, available on Audible and the Nightingale website.
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| 0:00.0 | When you do more than you're paid to do, you will eventually be paid more for what you do. |
| 0:06.5 | And that is the quote of the day. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your host Sean Crox and of Sean Crox and dot com. |
| 0:42.5 | Happy Friday to you. |
| 0:43.5 | Hope you're ready for your weekend. |
| 0:45.0 | And today we've got our featured speaker, Mr. Ziggs, Ziggler, Zigg is talking about work. |
| 0:50.8 | He's talking about if you want to be successful, you're going to have to work. |
| 0:54.5 | If you want to get paid more, you're going to have to do more high quality work. |
| 0:59.3 | As he says, it's the wisdom of the ages. |
| 1:02.2 | There is no free lunch. |
| 1:04.0 | You do not get something for nothing. |
| 1:06.4 | Every successful person I know works and you might see some lifestyle entrepreneurs online |
| 1:12.3 | with the pictures of the beach and their vacations and all that stuff. |
| 1:14.9 | Do you know what they're doing on those beaches? |
| 1:16.8 | They're working. |
| 1:17.8 | They're working in the hotel. |
| 1:19.0 | They're working on the plane. |
| 1:20.4 | They work. |
| 1:21.4 | There is no way out of it. |
| 1:23.1 | I feel like so many of us are trying to sidestep the work part of being successful. |
| 1:29.0 | The one thing that I'll tell you, it is absolutely impossible. |
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