Tim Blixseth Quotes
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Be the best you can be, and do the best you can do.
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If you’re defined by your possessions, you’re undefined.
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You only rent money…
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You have to believe in you because sometimes that’s the only person that does believe in your success is you.
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Remember how fortunate you are…
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I’ve probably had a lot of meals of humility when I was a kid…
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There’s always a core inside of that body of who you are.
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I have an obligation to help those that can’t help themselves.
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[On his mother] She taught me that if you’re right, never give up.
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Fight for the little guy.
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I love things perfect.
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I thought I was bullet-proof…
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I found out a little bit later… I wasn’t quite as smart as I thought I was…
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I think that everyone should be required to take one commercial flight a year if they own a private jet just to keep the humility and the appreciation for what they have.
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I don’t really have any guilty pleasures…
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I always have an exit strategy.
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The bigger the deal, the fewer the competitors.
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Wealth you can count. Some people have a great big pile and some people have a small pile. But we all have zero when we die.
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The best way to get a deal done is to keep everybody’s attention on the deal.
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Roseburg was a town of 10,000 people, mostly a logging town – that was the entire industry there. It was either feast or famine. You were either a logger who worked in a mill, or like my parents - my Dad was disabled, so we lived on welfare.
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They would yell out ‘Welfare kids – over here!’ That was so, so demoralizing… That was pretty tough at such a young age to understand why you’d be persecuted because you were poor.
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Work hard to me means exactly what it says that whatever your passion, whatever your occupation is, do the best you can do. Be the best you can be, and do the best you can do.
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I know quite a few people who have made an awful lot of money, who I really don’t ever want to be around. Because they are defined by their possessions. If you’re defined by your possessions, you’re undefined.
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You only rent money, and you only rent these possessions. And the last day of your life somebody else gets them.
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Your helping your family is really something that is more important…
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[On material possessions] My health and my family and my loved ones are more important to me than any possession I’ll ever have or I have had, because they’re just that they’re man made possessions.
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Very basic, treat people as how you would like to be treated.
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I’ve probably had a lot of meals of humility when I was a kid, that I had to swallow. But, you are who you are basically… The basic fibre of who a person is. If you’re basically dishonest, you’re dishonest. If you’re basically a nice person, most people I know that are nice people are always nice.
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I think certainly your background and your surroundings it does affect how I am as a human being, but there’s always a core – inside of that body of who you are.
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There are so many people who don’t know how to help themselves, and I think that I have an obligation, just me as a human - not putting my brand of ‘pulpy religion’ on anyone else – I have an obligation if I am fortunate enough and if I have more than I need to eat, than I have an obligation to help those that can’t help themselves. And I enjoy that. I have more reward doing that than anything.
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[On his mother winning in a case of a key party embezzling house payments and not passing them on] We’re poor people, but we can get justice, too… It absolutely affected me the rest of my life because I saw what she did, because she was right. So she taught me that if you’re right, never give up. Fight for the little guy.
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[On the Song ‘Heart of America to support the victims of Hurricane Katrina] That song came to me I think at 3:09am in the morning… and it was about the Katrina effort for the ‘Today Show’.
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We ended up building lots of houses down in the delta for people who had lost their homes. I think the whole effort raised one-hundred and fifty million dollars.
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The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that’s the only person that does believe in your success but you.
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Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
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[On his definition of success] It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke.
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I wish my dad could only see me now.
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[On going into business at the age of 15 – buying three donkey’s for $25 each and then selling them as three ‘pack mules’ for $75 each] I wasn’t selling ‘donkeys.’ I was selling ‘pack mules’. That’s how I learned about marketing.
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[On buying his first property for $90,000 when he had only $1,000 to his name, with only $1,000 down and a promise to pay the rest within a week.] The realtor said to me, ‘Kid, I’m going to take your money to teach you a lesson. If you don’t pay me the rest of the $90,000 within a week, I’m going to keep your $1,000. [But he found a timber company to buy the property a week later for $140,000, giving him an instant profit of $50,000.] My Dad assumed I must have done something illegal since it was so much money. He was going to turn me into to the police until I explained the whole thing.
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Don’t get a divorce in the middle of a recession.
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