I came across a post on social media a few days ago that really struck a nerve with me. I love to see that people are paying attention and learning from my life’s mistakes. Every rule on the list below is because I got a bloody nose by doing it the opposite way. As my mentor Ken Bray always says: Sometimes you gotta get a few bloody noses to figure out how the playground works. So the fact that younger people can learn from my bloody noses makes me very happy. Life is what you make it, people – blaze a path!!!
Posted by Allen Reining Horses:
Quotes by Clinton Anderson that a young trainer should live by and most of us learn the hard way:
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- “Work harder than anybody else. That’s the one thing that will beat talent.”
- “Nobody respects your money like you do no matter how much you pay them or how much incentive they have.”
- “An employee will do what you inspect, not expect.”
- “It’s not a bit that’s severe in a horse’s mouth, it’s the hands behind it.”
- “Frustration begins where knowledge ends.”
- “If you’re getting bucked off in the first place, it’s because you’ve already failed. The fact that your colt wants to buck tells me you haven’t done your homework.”
- “It’s amazing what you can get done in eight hours, if you actually work for eight hours”
- “You better pick somebody that loves what you’re doing because horses are a drug. It doesn’t wear off. And people that don’t have that drug, will never get that drug.”
- “Make sure that a customer walks away feeling like they got more than they paid for.“
