Quotes from Harvey Mackay

If you don't take care of yourself, you can't be at your best.

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

People become successful the minute they decide to.

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.

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.

To Be Success In Life Forget The Problems That You Face...But Don't Forget The Lessons That Those Problems Taught To..

Dig your well before you're thirsty

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

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

If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

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

It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don't know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.

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.

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.

If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It's an important skill to develop.

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

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.

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

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.

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

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.