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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.

Harvey Mackay

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
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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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You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
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Don't confuse visibility with credibility.
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One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
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When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
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Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.
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Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
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Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.
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It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
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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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A student of life considers the world a classroom.
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No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
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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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