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993 | Arnold Schwarzenegger: “Never Think Small; Think Big.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Arnold shares his second rule of success — THINK BIG — and how he used it to become the best bodybuilder, a movie star, and the Governor of California.

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOTS! Never think small. Think big. Here we go!

0:30.0

Welcome back to the QOTS! I'm your host, Sean Crox and I'm Sean Crox and

0:36.8

Ty Com. We got Arnold Schwarzenegger on the show today. He's going to share the

0:41.8

second of his five rules of success and how he used this rule to become the

0:48.5

world's greatest bodybuilder in a huge movie star in the governor of

0:53.9

California. That's crazy. Here's Arnold. Now my second rule is never ever

1:02.1

think small. If you're going to accomplish anything you have to think big. You

1:07.7

have to go and shoot for the stars. The biggest challenge most people have is

1:11.8

because they think small. And the reason why people think small and why they

1:15.9

choose small little gores is because they are afraid to fail. They know that if

1:21.4

you shoot for big gore then the chances of failing are very high. And they're

1:26.0

afraid of failing. It's one of the most common things why people are frozen

1:30.2

and they can't make a move in life because they're scared of failing. I say

1:35.2

them as if hey I'm not worried about failing because that's part of life. You're

1:40.3

not going to be going win everything and how far can you fall? Look at this.

1:43.8

This is the ground. That's as far as I can fall. And you know something? The only

1:49.1

time you really consider the failure is if you fall and you don't get up. But

1:55.4

if you get up you never consider the failure. So I never considered myself

1:59.6

a failure. I always consider myself a winner even though I fell every so often.

2:04.0

But I always got up and I always move forward. This is the important thing. I

2:10.7

never had any patience of course for thinking small because in German we

2:15.1

have a saying, venture, then show. And that means that if it was something then go

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