Harvey MacKay > Quotes

“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.”
― Harvey MacKay

“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.”
― Harvey MacKay

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that 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 be worth it.”
― Harvey Mackay

“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”
― Harvey MacKay

“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”
― Harvey MacKay

“If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.”
― Harvey Mackay

“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.”
― Harvey Mackay

“Don't water your weeds”
― Harvey Mackay

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,so love the people who treat you right,forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason.If you get a chance,take it.If it changes your life,let it.Nobody said that it would be easy,they just promised it would be worth it.”
― Harvey Mackay

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
― Harvey Mackay

“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.”
― Harvey MacKay

“Friends are made my many acts and lost by only one.”
― Harvey MacKay

“Time is free, but its 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.”
― Harvey MacKay

“If you don't take care of yourself, you can't be at your best.”
― Harvey Mackay

“Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn’t matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you’re going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.”
― Harvey MacKay

“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.”
― Harvey MacKay

“One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.”
― Harvey MacKay

“People become successful the minute they decide to.”
― Harvey MacKay

“Dig your well before you're thirsty”
― Harvey MacKay, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You'll Ever Need

“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.”
― Harvey MacKay

“To Be Success In Life Forget The Problems That You Face...But Don’t Forget The Lessons That Those Problems Taught To..”
― Harvey MacKay

“He who burns his bridges better be a darn good swimmer”
― Harvey B. Mackay, Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

“Our lives change in two ways: through the people we meet and the books we read”
― Harvey MacKay

“Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.”
― Harvey MacKay

“Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. When you are positive, it not only makes you better but it makes the people around you better!”
― Harvey MacKay

“disassembled”
― Harvey MacKay, Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

“Knowing your customer means knowing what your customer really wants. Maybe it is your product, but maybe there’s something else, too: recognition, respect, reliability, concern, service, a feeling of self-importance, friendship, help—things all of us care more about as human beings than we care about malls or envelopes.”
― Harvey B. Mackay, Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

“John Milton rose every day at 4 a.m. to write Paradise Lost. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire took Edward Gibbon 26 painstaking years to complete. Ernest Hemingway is said to have reviewed The Old Man and the Sea manuscript 80 times before submitting if for publication. It took Noah Webster 36 years to compile Webster’s Dictionary.”
― Harvey MacKay

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”
― Harvey MacKay

“If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.”
― Harvey MacKay, Success Is a Journey: Making Your Life a Grand Adventure