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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
Stub
Toes
Backwards
Walk
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The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
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The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.
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All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.
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By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
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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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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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Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
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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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There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.
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Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
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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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Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.
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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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