Harvey Mackay Quotes

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.

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.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

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

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

Don't water your weeds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ideas without action are worthless.

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

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.

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

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

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

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.

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

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