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The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.
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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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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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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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If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!
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Failure is not falling down but staying down.
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One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
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There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.
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Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.
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I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.
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Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
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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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Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.
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Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
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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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You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.
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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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When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.
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