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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.
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You'll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you.
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As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.
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Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
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I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.
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Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.
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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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You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't
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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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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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We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
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When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
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Never, never pass up an opportunity to meet new people. Your antennae should be up your whole life.
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Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic.
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Never underestimate the power of a simple thank-you note... or a note of congratulations.
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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.
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People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
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The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.
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When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
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Never underestimate the impact of the law of unexpected consequences.
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Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
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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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Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
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Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
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To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.
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Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.
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Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
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A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Harvey Mackay
Born:
1932
(age 92)
Bio:
Harvey Mackay is a businessman, author and syndicated columnist with Universal Uclick. His weekly column gives career and inspirational advice and is featured in over 100 newspapers.
Known for:
Dig your well before you're thirsty (1997)
The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World (2011)
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