Harvey Mackay Quotes

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.

You're as old as you behave.

Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.

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

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

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it.

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.

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

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

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For the real winners, there are no finish lines.

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

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

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.

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

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

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.

Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

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.

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

Knowledge is not power unless it is used.

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.

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

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

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

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

If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.

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.

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

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

There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

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

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

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

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

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

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

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.