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If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
Businessman
Businessperson
Journalist
Toes
Backwards
Walk
Walks
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Stub

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Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.
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Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.
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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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You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.
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The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
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If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view
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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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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 can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.
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Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
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Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.
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Failure is not falling down but staying down.
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None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
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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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Failures don't plan to fail they fail to plan.
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Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.
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When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
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