Harvey Mackay - People Quotes

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

Harvey Mackay
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

Harvey Mackay
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

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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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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, never pass up an opportunity to meet new people. Your antennae should be up your whole life.

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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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You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.

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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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