Top 100 Harvey Mackay Quotes
#1. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.
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#2. Happiness can be thought, taught and caught ... but not bought.
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#3. Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
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#4. To Be Success In Life Forget The Problems That You Face ... But Don't Forget The Lessons That Those Problems Taught To..
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#5. If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It's an important skill to develop.
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#6. The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
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#7. Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.
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#8. Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.
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#10. Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
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#11. People become successful the minute they decide to.
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#12. By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.
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#13. Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.
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#14. It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.
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#15. Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.
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#16. You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.
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#17. Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
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#18. Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.
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#19. Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.
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#20. It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
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#21. The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, very careful. You can't afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire.
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#22. The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
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#23. For the real winners, there are no finish lines.
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#25. I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.
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#26. Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
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#27. A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.
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#28. You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
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#29. Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
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#32. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.
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#33. Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.
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#34. When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.
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#35. Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
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#37. Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.
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#38. It all comes down to this:
If you want one year of happiness, grow grain
If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees
If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people
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#39. You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.
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#40. People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
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#41. When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
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#42. I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.
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#43. Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
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#44. Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.
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#45. Friends are made my many acts and lost by only one.
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#46. One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
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#47. It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.
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#48. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.
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#49. Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
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#51. No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.
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#52. Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.
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#53. Friends are made by many acts ... and lost by only one.
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#54. As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
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#55. No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
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#56. Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.
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#57. The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
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#58. If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view
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#59. You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't
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#60. It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.
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#61. Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.
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#62. A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.
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#63. If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!
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#64. By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
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#65. You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen-not just money, but respect.
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#67. Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.
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#68. Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.
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#69. Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
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#70. Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.
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#71. If you have no destination, you'll never get there.
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#72. Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
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#73. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.
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#74. A student of life considers the world a classroom.
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#75. The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.
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#76. If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.
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#77. The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.
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#78. Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
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#79. If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
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#80. When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.
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#81. Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
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#82. It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
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#83. You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.
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#84. Our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read
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#85. Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
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#86. Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.
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#87. If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.
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#88. Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
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#89. To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
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#90. Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.
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#91. There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.
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#92. Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.
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#93. There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."
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#94. You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.
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#96. If you don't take care of yourself, you can't be at your best.
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#97. Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.
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#98. Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
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#99. Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you've given it, don't concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying 'I told you so.'
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#100. As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.
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