“What’s interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.”

There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.

Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.

Each of us wants to feel good about himself or herself, but to me it is just as important to make others feel the same way.

People will support that which they help to create.

Left unattended, problems only intensify.

Don’t limit yourself.

I do believe in encouraging a person to compete with herself… at Mary Kay Cosmetics, we’ve made that philosophy a company policy.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.

Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn’t have this spirit, chances are you won’t find it anywhere else in the organization.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.