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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
Walks
Never
Stub
Toes
Backwards
Walk

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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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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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Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.
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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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By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
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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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Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.
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Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.
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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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Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.
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I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.
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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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For the real winners, there are no finish lines.
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When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.
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The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
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There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.
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Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
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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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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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The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation.
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