Top 211 Quotes & Sayings by Harvey Mackay - Page 3

If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.

Worrying makes you cross the bridge before you come to it.

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

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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.

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.

Minds are like parachutes-not much good unless they are open.

Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

All success is, really, is having a predetermined plan and carrying it out successfully over a long period of time.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life.

Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.

I have never yet met a successful person who hasn't had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. If life there is a lot of lumps and bumps... a lot of throttling up and a lot of throttling down.

There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale.

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.

You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.

Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.

Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

Ideas without action are worthless.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

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

If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

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.

The sale begins when the customer says yes.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

America is ripe for a service revolution.

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.

It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

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

It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.

If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.