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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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The sale begins when the customer says yes.
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For the real winners, there are no finish lines.
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One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.
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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.
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Don't equate activity with efficiency.
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The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.
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There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.
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Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.
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Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.
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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.
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Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.
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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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You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.
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I have never yet met a successful person who hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. If life there is a lot of lumps and bumps... a lot of throttling up and a lot of throttling down.
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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
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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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We all start out in life with one thing in common We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
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Failures don't plan to fail they fail to plan.
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Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.
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In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
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