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Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon.

Mary Kay Ash

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
If you have an idea and I have an idea – then we EACH have JUST ONE idea; but if you share your idea with me and I do the same, we EACH have TWO ideas!
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Ideas Myself Team Work Togetherness Yourself
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
People often resist change when they don’t participate in the decision-making process. Some of the best leaders ‘plant the seed’ that permits others to propose the idea and take credit for it!
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Change Decision Ideas People Progress Proposal Resistance
Don’t limit yourself.
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Limitation One Liner Yourself
You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.
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Inspirational Move Stand Yourself
Left unattended, problems only intensify.
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Ignorance Intense One Liner Problem Solution
I do believe in encouraging a person to compete with herself… at Mary Kay Cosmetics, we’ve made that philosophy a company policy.
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Believe Company Encouragement Person Philosophy Policy
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
Real leaders aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
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Afraid Dirty Hands Leadership Reality
People change and even products change. But over the course of time it’s the strength of a company’s philosophy that will determine whether or not it endures.
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Change Company Determination Endurance People Philosophy Production Strength
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
Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.
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Believe Faith God Hope Problem Solution True Yourself
People are happiest when they have goals, small and large, because they can look forward to attaining them.
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Accomplishment Goal Happiness People Small
Every person should have a lifetime self-improvement program.
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Improvement Life Myself Person Program Time
Nobody wins ‘em all. If you come down on them too hard for losing, they’ll stop sticking their necks out.
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Hard Lose Stop Yourself

Never rest on your laurels. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel sat upon.

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