Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackayis a businessman, author and syndicated columnist with Universal Uclick. His weekly column gives career and inspirational advice and is featured in over 100 newspapers. Mackay has authored seven New York Times bestselling books, including three number one bestsellers. He is also a member of the National Speakers Association Council of Peers Award for Excellence Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
Harvey Mackay quotes about
- thank-you
- thanksgiving
- understanding
- toes
- walks
- backwards
- persistence
- effort
- permanent
- turtles
- sticks
- necks
- efficiency
- shuffling
- activity
- life-is-too-short
- said-life
- would-be
- live-life
- ratios
- want
- chance
- changing-your-life
- things-in-life
- individual
- accepting
- reputation
- good-reputation
- priorities
- might
live-life ratios want
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.
life-changing book two
our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read
life-is-too-short chance changing-your-life
If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.
friday monday morning
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.
turtles sticks necks
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
reputation good-reputation
You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
life-is-too-short said-life would-be
Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.
permanent
Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
efficiency shuffling activity
Don't equate activity with efficiency.
skills creative fool
Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.
mistake past experience
Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.
uplifting positive-thinking optimism
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.
skills fuel assets
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.
preparation way pressure
Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.