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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Failure is an attitude, not an outcome.

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.

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

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

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.

Don't water your weeds.

Don't confuse visibility with credibility.

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

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

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

Ideas without action are worthless.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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