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Your past is not your potential.

Harvey Mackay

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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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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All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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Ideas without action are worthless.
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To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.
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Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.
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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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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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If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.
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You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.
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No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.
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Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.
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When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.
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I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.
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A student of life considers the world a classroom.
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The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
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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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Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.
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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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You'll always get the good news it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.
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In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
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