Harvey Mackay

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In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Competition
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There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Girl
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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Inspirational
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No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Baby
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If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Gossip
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In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Agreement
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Make the second effort your second nature.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Persistence
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I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Shooting
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Doe
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You're as old as you behave.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Behave
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- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Philosophy
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: People
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Failure is not falling down but staying down.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Fall
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If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Want
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Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Mind
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Don't confuse visibility with credibility.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Visibility
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Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Failure
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Knowledge is not power unless it is used.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Used
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Determination
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I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Powerful
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Athlete
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Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Friday
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Philosophy
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Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: People
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Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Successful
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Jobs
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Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Bridges
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If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Jobs
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: People
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There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Educational
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When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Opportunity
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By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Character
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Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Competition
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Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Rooms
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Smart
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Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Mean
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If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Toes
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One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Things In Life
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When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Simple
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It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Attitude
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Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Powerful
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All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Long
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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.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Falling In Love
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If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Successful
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Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Dollars
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My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Simple
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A student of life considers the world a classroom.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: World
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The sale begins when the customer says yes.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Motivational Sales
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I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Determination