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You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
Businessman
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Everyone
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People
Offer
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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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Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.
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You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.
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Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.
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Failure is not falling down but staying down.
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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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Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
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Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.
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In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
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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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If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.
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Failures don't plan to fail they fail to plan.
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Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.
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Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
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You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.
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One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
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A student of life considers the world a classroom.
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Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.
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You can't buy a good reputation you must earn it.
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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.
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