110+ Ernie J Zelinski Quotes On Education, Freedom And Creative

Ernie J Zelinski is a Canadian author and entrepreneur who has written several books on self-improvement, retirement, and career success. He is best known for his international bestseller, The Joy of Not Working, which has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide. He is also the creator of the popular website, erniezelinski.com, which provides practical advice on achieving financial independence. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ernie J Zelinski on education, leadership, love.

Top 10 Ernie J Zelinski Quotes

1. Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
2. Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.
3. Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.
4. Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.
5. Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!
6. Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.
7. Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been.
8. 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.
9. Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?
10. Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

Ernie J Zelinski Short Quotes

• Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.
• Fifteen Minutes of Notoriety Beats the Best Advertising Money Can Buy
• Welfare is not a retirement plan.
• Real success doesn't care how you get there.
• Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.
• Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.
• Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.
• A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments.
• Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?
• Be a learner first, a master second, and a student always.

Ernie J Zelinski Quotes About Love

Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN! — Ernie J Zelinski

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

Ernie J Zelinski Quotes About Creative

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left. — Ernie J Zelinski

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You. — Ernie J Zelinski

You Are Already a Millionaire - Your Creativity Makes It So. — Ernie J Zelinski

Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World! — Ernie J Zelinski

There are two principles for creative success - one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle. — Ernie J Zelinski

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge. — Ernie J Zelinski

Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all. — Ernie J Zelinski

Creativity is thinking big. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Ernie J Zelinski Quotes About Inspiring

Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life. — Ernie J Zelinski

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness. — Ernie J Zelinski

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too! — Ernie J Zelinski

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Ernie J Zelinski Famous Quotes And Sayings

You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you can get up in the morning when you want to get up; go to sleep when you want to go to sleep; and in the interval, work and play at the things you want to work and play at - all at your own pace. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

What Is Your WOW Factor? This applies to both the service that you provide to the world and the way you market it. Make it edgy, make it snappy, and make it punchy. Even make it raunchy - but make it different! Real different! — Ernie J Zelinski

The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are. — Ernie J Zelinski

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead. — Ernie J Zelinski

It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten. — Ernie J Zelinski

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you. — Ernie J Zelinski

Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me. — Ernie J Zelinski

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere! — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

Opportunity can't reward you with its many gifts if you fail to recognize it and act on it. What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made from the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Let the good times roll! — Ernie J Zelinski

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten. — Ernie J Zelinski

Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result. — Ernie J Zelinski

Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective way to perform it. — Ernie J Zelinski

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. — Ernie J Zelinski

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it. — Ernie J Zelinski

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

Do It Badly - But at Least Do It! — Ernie J Zelinski

To fear retirement is to fear life. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides. — Ernie J Zelinski

Two people look at the same Exercise above: One sees "Opportunity Is Nowhere" and one sees "Opportunity Is Now Here." — Ernie J Zelinski

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Thank Heaven for Retirement! — Ernie J Zelinski

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have. — Ernie J Zelinski

Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere. — Ernie J Zelinski

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! — Ernie J Zelinski

In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment. — Ernie J Zelinski

If You Hang Around with a Bunch of Blunderers Long Enough, you Will Become One Yourself. — Ernie J Zelinski

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

There is no secret to how to attain prosperity. The Universe supports and rewards us for taking risks on things that matter to the Universe. When we remember this, the mysteries about prosperity disappear, and prosperity stands explained. Prosperity will then manifest itself easily provided the Universe agrees that we are doing the right things in our lives to deserve this prosperity. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with. — Ernie J Zelinski

Prosperity Comes When You Do the Right Things with Your Life — Ernie J Zelinski

Take Special Care of Yourself - Because No One Else Will! — Ernie J Zelinski

Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business — Ernie J Zelinski

According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost! — Ernie J Zelinski

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong. — Ernie J Zelinski

When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy. — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

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? — Ernie J Zelinski

Your prosperity will grow to the extent that you do. Your feeling of prosperity may require that you overcome the fear of leaving a secure job for a less secure job, with less pay, but a lot more freedom. Fact is, feeling more prosperous doesn't necessarily mean earning more money. Sometimes it means earning less money. — Ernie J Zelinski

Try to earn your $$$$$$ before you spend them. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

There is a spiritual realm that encompasses all beings. Make friends with the angels, who will always be with you, although invisible. Make good use of their assistance while following your dreams and in all your creative pursuits through life. Your success and prosperity will come much easier and a lot quicker. — Ernie J Zelinski

Want to know the secret behind The Secret? The Law of Attraction will not bring you abundance and prosperity for just thinking pleasant, positive thoughts. It is no cosmic mistake that the word "attraction" has the word "action" in it. Abundance is, in fact, the result of creative thinking and a lot of action. Much action, much prosperity, in other words. What are you waiting for? — Ernie J Zelinski

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. — Ernie J Zelinski

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

Don't Mess Around with Reality and Reality Won't Mess Around with You. — Ernie J Zelinski

Anything great that has been accomplished in the history of humanity has started with one small thought. We all have those thoughts; few people do anything with theirs, however. What do you intend to do with yours? — Ernie J Zelinski

What do you see? OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE — Ernie J Zelinski

Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more. — Ernie J Zelinski

Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time. — Ernie J Zelinski

I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich. — Ernie J Zelinski

Life Lessons by Ernie J Zelinski

1. Ernie J Zelinski emphasizes the importance of taking risks and following your passions in order to achieve success and fulfillment.
2. He encourages readers to break away from traditional paths and think outside the box in order to create their own unique paths to success.
3. Zelinski also stresses the importance of having a positive attitude and believing in yourself in order to reach your goals.