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If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

Harvey Mackay

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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.
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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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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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Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.
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Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
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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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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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If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.
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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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If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.
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For the real winners, there are no finish lines.
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Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.
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Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.
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No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
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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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Failure is not falling down but staying down.
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