Harvey Mackay famous quotes

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

#Habit #Bad Habits #Good Habits

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Two #Perspective #Choices

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Change #Regret #Life Is Too Short

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Thanksgiving #Understanding #Helping

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Mirrors #Looks #Phases

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

#Mistake #Same Mistakes #One Mistake

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

#Success #Determination #Motivation

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Inspirational #Time #Use

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Heart #Games #Mind

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

#Inspirational #Long #Cows

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

#Creativity #Fire #Creative

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

#Fire #People #Miserable

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

#Positive #Being Positive #Pessimist

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

#Inspirational #Believe #Wish

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Hard Work #Doe

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Motivational #Dream #Persistence

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

#Simple #Networking #Golden

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

#Life Changing #Book #Two

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Life #Matter #Common

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Believe #Positive Thinking #Way

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#People #Advice #Pieces

Bottom Line: Business is all about Building Relationships! If you want to make More Money and Enjoy More Lifestyle, You Have to Build Better Relationships than the Next Person! Send Out Cards helps to do that both personally and professionally! It's the first company I have ever endorsed because it fits perfectly with my Philosophy! You would have to be Crazy not to use it!
-- Harvey Mackay

#Philosophy #Crazy #Cards

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

#Opportunity #May #Littles

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Powerful #Unique #Thought Provoking

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Inspirational #Money #Wind

If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Moving #Thinking #Worry

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

#Educational #World #Care

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Success #Sports #Art

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

#Moving On #Morning #Giving

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

#Jobs #Titles #Matter

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

#Self Esteem #People #Self Respect

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

#Inspirational #Inspire #Good Person

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

#Gratitude #Appreciation #Attitude

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Determination #Persistence #Leader

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Falling In Love #May #Matter

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Friday #Monday #Morning

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

#Turtles #Sticks #Necks

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

#Chance #Changing Your Life

The sale begins when the customer says yes.
-- Harvey Mackay

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

#Long #People

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

#Good Morning #Opportunity #Isolation

A student of life considers the world a classroom.
-- Harvey Mackay

#World #Students #Classroom

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Priorities #Might #Helping

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

#Reputation #Good Reputation

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

#Listening

Don't water your weeds.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Weed #Water #Proactive

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Powerful #Mouths #Way

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

#Accomplishment #Next #Starting

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

#Down And #Ups & Downs

For the real winners, there are no finish lines.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Real #Lines #Winner

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

#Chance #Busy #Too Busy

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

#Mind #Parachutes

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

#Impossible #Accomplish

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

#Funeral #Waiting #May

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Decision #Doubt #Ethical

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

#Live Life #Want #Ratios

Ideas without action are worthless.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Motivational #Ideas #Action

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.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Lying #Successful #Differences