Ernie J Zelinski Quotes

There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

If you end up getting into a fight with someone, make sure that you win by at least half a mile.

Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.

Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.

Talking about creativity is useless if you don't do anything magical with yours.

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!

To fear retirement is to fear life.

Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been.

Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy

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.

You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

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.

The universe defies you to answer the following questions: What good is a high paying career if it leaves you continually stressed out and miserable? What good is owning a large stately house if the only time you spend in it is when you sleep in it? What good is having a lot of interesting possessions if you never have the free time to enjoy them? Above all, what good is having a family if you seldom see any of its members?

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.

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.

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.

The best advice that anyone can give you for choosing a specific career is never to accept someone else's advice. Indeed, one of the biggest reasons for choosing the career you have chosen should be that no one told you to.

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.

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.

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.

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.

Feeling prosperous means paying your utility bills on time and with a smile on your face. Prosperity means not only giving to the homeless person, but having a smile on your face when you do it. Prosperity also means buying fresh produce with a smile on your face instead of buying day-old bread or bargain overripe fruit with a scowl on your face. Still more, being prosperous means tipping generously with a smile on your face when the waiter has given you great service instead of trying to stiff him with a mere percent, or worse, no tip at all.

Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

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.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

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.

Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!

Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!

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.

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.

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

Thank Heaven for Retirement!

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.

Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.

Try to earn your $$$$$$ before you spend them.

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.

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.

What do you see? OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

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.