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Don't equate activity with efficiency.

Harvey Mackay

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.
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If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.
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Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
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The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
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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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If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
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Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.
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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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Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.
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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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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.
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Ideas without action are worthless.
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You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.
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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!
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The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
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If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.
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It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.
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When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.
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