“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now”
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Zig Ziglar 87
American motivational speaker 1926–2012Related quotes

“Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the.”
Source: Drawing Out The Dragons: A Meditation on Art, Destiny, and the Power of Choice

“Never give up what you want most for what you want today.”

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

“The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want.”
"What you can't say" http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html, January 2004

“What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have.”
During the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
The myth of the free market: the role of the state in a capitalist economy by Mark Anthony Martinez, p. 116 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M97-cI2V080C&pg=PA116&dq=%22What+matters+this+or+that+reason%3F+What+we+want+is+more+of+the+trade+which+the+Dutch+now+have.%22&hl=en&ei=pePHTKXJDoqOjAfo_vFK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22What%20matters%20this%20or%20that%20reason%3F%20What%20we%20want%20is%20more%20of%20the%20trade%20which%20the%20Dutch%20now%20have.%22&f=false