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The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

Harvey Mackay

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
Businessman
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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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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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The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
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If you can't say yes, it's no. Don't sugarcoat it. Don't talk yourself into yes just to seem like a nice guy. No one ever went broke because he or she said NO too often.
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Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.
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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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