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True leaders establish success patterns that make everyone think success.

Mary Kay Ash

When you listen, the benefit is two fold: You receive the necessary information, and you make the other person feel important.
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Feeling Important Information Listening Necessary Person Yourself
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.
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Choice Decision Myself People Person Wonderful World
I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say I’ve always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed.
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Best Disappoint Failure Honesty Learning Myself Teaching Time
People fall forward to success.
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Fall One Liner People Success
Dare to risk public criticism.
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Criticism Dare One Liner Risk
Be the kind of person who can always be counted on to do what you say you’ll do.
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Count Kindness Person Yourself
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.
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Care Death Goal Herself Life Live Purpose
I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.
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Believe People Praise Reaction Water Yourself
Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.
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Achievement Greatness Path Small Success
There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
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Big Decision Difference Manager
Recognition is the most powerful of all motivating techniques.
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Motivational Powerful Recognition Technique
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.
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Environment Organization Risk Spirit
Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it’s too late.
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Deep Life Live Move People Time Travel
In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don’t like to do.
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Fact Learning Pay Yourself
Nothing happens until somebody sells something!
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Buy Money Price
Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon.
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Destroy Fast Rest Yourself
Don’t limit yourself.
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Limitation One Liner Yourself
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
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Leadership Speed Team Work
One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.
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Day Dreams Inspirational Intense Motivational Worth
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Achievement Enthusiasm Greatness
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
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Exercise Goal Goodness Yourself
God didn’t have time to create a nobody, just a somebody. I believe that each of us has God given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition. Each person is unique and special.
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Believe Creation God Inspirational Myself Person Talent Time Unique Wait
Never, absolutely never, compromise your principles.
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Compromise Principle Yourself
You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
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Animal Eat Time Yourself
Unlike many people who start a new business, money was not my prime motivation – not that I was so well off that it wasn’t a consideration; in fact, I had put my lifetime savings on the line.
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Business Life Money Motivational Myself People Save Start Time
Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.
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Blessing Excellence Necessary People Talent
Give yourself something to work toward – constantly.
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Goal Inspirational Motivational Work

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