Zig Ziglar: “What Happens Out There isn’t Nearly as Important as What Happens in Here.”
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Sean Croxton
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Zig Ziglar shares timeless wisdom on personal responsibility, mindset, and the “inner economy.” Through stories of hardship, humor, and real-life transformation, he shows how performance — not circumstances — determines success, and how positive self-talk can radically reshape confidence, behavior, and results.
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| 0:39.4 | What I've noticed in every decade of my life, and I've seen some times so wonderful that you could almost reach up and pull the money down off trees. |
| 0:49.2 | I've seen it so tough that the rate of interest was 18%. Inflation was 21%. And during the toughest times of all, |
| 0:57.5 | there were some people who were literally getting rich. Why? They understood something. Now what |
| 1:03.2 | happens out there is what happens in here. Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 1:23.6 | I am your host, Sean Croxton of Sean Croxton. |
| 1:26.5 | We got Zig Ziglar back on the show today. |
| 1:31.0 | And today, Zig is going to talk about your inner economy. A couple weeks ago, I told you about how I |
| 1:38.6 | paused my YouTube TV account. And the reason I did that is because I no longer want to watch the news. |
| 1:45.4 | I used to watch way too much news. |
| 1:47.0 | It would put me in a negative frame of mind, just a really bad headspace. |
| 1:50.5 | And it cut into my, you know, my productivity. |
| 1:53.8 | And now that I've been 99% news free for maybe the last month, |
| 1:59.1 | I find that I am in a much better mood and that my focus |
| 2:03.6 | and productivity are on a whole new level. On a level, they really haven't been in a really |
| 2:08.8 | long time. And so I'm going to keep doing this. However, a couple days ago, I was like, you know what, |
| 2:14.4 | I wonder what's going on in the world and in the country. |
| 2:17.6 | So let me find out. |
| 2:18.8 | So since I don't have YouTube TV, I had to pull out my serious XM app so I can listen to the news. |
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