Harvey mackay quotes

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.

I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.

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.

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.

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

My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

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.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

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

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

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

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

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.

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

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

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

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

Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

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

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

Ideas without action are worthless.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

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

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.

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.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Don't water your weeds.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

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

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.

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.

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.

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

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

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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.

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.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.

What could you accomplish if no one told you it was impossible?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

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.

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

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

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

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.

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

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

Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

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

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

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.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Failure is not falling down but staying down.

You can't learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ. The only way to create a successful sale is to understand that knowledge from listening does not become power until it is used. And ideas without action are worthless.

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.

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

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

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

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.

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

Your past is not your potential.

Decide what your priorities are and how much time you'll spend on them. If you don't, someone else will.

You're as old as you behave.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

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

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

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

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.

For the real winners, there are no finish lines.

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.

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.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.

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