Harvey Mackay
Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.Collection: Down And
When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.Collection: Thinking
If you have no destination, you'll never get there.Collection: Motivational
If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.Collection: Looks
Winners surround themselves with other winners. A winner knows he's a winner. He doesn't need second-raters and yes-men around to feed his ego. He knows he'll win more, and go further, with associates who not only can keep up with him but who also are capable of teaching him something.Collection: Teaching
Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.Collection: Priorities
The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.Collection: Powerful
Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.Collection: Believe
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.Collection: Success
To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.Collection: Stress
Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Positive
What could you accomplish if no one told you it was impossible?Collection: Impossible
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.Collection: Taken
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.Collection: Mistake
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.Collection: Work
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.Collection: Mistake
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.Collection: Inspirational
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.Collection: Attitude
our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we readCollection: Life Changing
You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.Collection: Hands
Your past is not your potential.Collection: Past
The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.Collection: Cost
Don't equate activity with efficiency.Collection: Efficiency
Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.Collection: Priorities
Ideas without action are worthless.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Jobs
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.Collection: Compliments You
You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.Collection: People
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.Collection: Loyalty
Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic.Collection: Jobs
Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.Collection: Watches
Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.Collection: Preparation
Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.Collection: Attitude
Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.Collection: Leadership
Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.Collection: Mean
Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.Collection: Successful
We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.Collection: Children
The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it.Collection: Success
Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.Collection: People
I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.Collection: Knows
It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don't know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.Collection: Nice
I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.Collection: New York
Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.Collection: Permanent
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.Collection: Memories
What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.Collection: People
A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for itCollection: Dream
You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.Collection: News