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Harvey Mackay
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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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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You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.
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I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.
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It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
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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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For the real winners, there are no finish lines.
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One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
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The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
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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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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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Failures don't plan to fail they fail to plan.
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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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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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Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.
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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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A student of life considers the world a classroom.
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Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
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If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.
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You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
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Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.
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