Harvey Mackay Quotes - Page 8

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

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

We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it.

Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know.

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.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

A dream is always a bargain no matter what you pay for it

There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

Make the second effort your second nature.

I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting.

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.