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“If employees are doing something wrong or are making a mistake, I am doubly careful not to hurt their feelings and make them feel small or embarrassed. I just use four simple steps: “First, I talk to them privately. “Second, I praise them for what they are doing well. “Third, I point out the one thing at the moment that they could do better and I help them find the way. “Fourth, I praise them again on their good points.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Meet problems and obstacles as they arise. The test of a successful person is not the ability to eliminate all problems before he takes action, but rather the ability to find solutions to difficulties when he encounters them.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Put these two thoughts deep in your mind. First, give your ideas value by acting on them.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“This is a fact of paramount significance: Each human being, whether he lives in India or Indianapolis, whether he’s ignorant or brilliant, civilized or uncivilized, young or old, has this desire: He wants to feel important.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Take the initiative in building friendships—leaders always do. It’s easy and natural for us to tell ourselves, “Let him make the first move.” “Let them call us.” “Let her speak first.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Practice calling people by their names. Every year shrewd manufacturers sell more briefcases, pencils, Bibles, and hundreds of other items just by putting the buyer’s name on the product. People like to be called by name. It gives everyone a boost to be addressed by name.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“The story is told that the great scientist Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein’s reply was “I don’t know. Why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Don’t let ideas escape. Write them down.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Big thinkers train themselves to see not just what is but what can be.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Action cures fear.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“the thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you have”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking BIg

“Look at things as they can be, not as they are.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“those who believe they can move mountains,do.Those who believe they can't,cannot.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“WHEN YOU BELIEVE, YOUR MIND WILL FIND WAY TO DO”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“when we do what is known to be wrong, two negative things happened. First, we feel guilt and this guilt eats away confidence. Second, other people sooner or later find out and lose confidence in us”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Belief triggers the power to do.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Most of us make two basic errors with respect to intelligence: 1. We underestimate our own brainpower. 2. We overestimate the other fellow’s brainpower.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“The point is clear. People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“The point is this: Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. To think big, we must use words and phrases that produce big, positive mental images.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figure ways and means and how-to.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“Look important. It helps you think important. How you look on the outside has a lot to do with how you feel on the inside.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Reminding yourself, you never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big