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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash

There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
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Big Decision Difference Manager
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
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
I believe that work if often the best antidote for grief.
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Believe Grief Work
Never, absolutely never, compromise your principles.
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Compromise Principle Yourself
Make people who work for you feel important. If you honor and serve them, they’ll honor and serve you.
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Feeling Important People Service Work Yourself
You can go as far as your mind lets you.
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Inspirational Journey Mindset Motivational Travel Yourself
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
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Absence Act Goal Loyalty Performance
My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
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Future Happiness Love Myself
Give yourself something to work toward – constantly.
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Goal Inspirational Motivational Work
The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.
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Commitment Hard Yourself
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
There are two things people want more than sex and money, recognition and praise.
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Money People Praise Recognition Sex Worth
You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.
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Inspirational Move Stand Yourself
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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Action Failure Inspirational Road Travel
Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.
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Achievement Age Goodness Time
The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return – 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.
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Business Heart Mindset Plant Return Seed Yourself
Dare to risk public criticism.
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Criticism Dare One Liner Risk
To me, P and L doesn’t only mean profit and loss – it also means people and love.
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Loss Love Myself People Profit
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
True leaders establish success patterns that make everyone think success.
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Establishment Leadership Success Thinking True
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.
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Feeling Goodness Herself Himself Important
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
A strong beginning is a good thing only when coupled with a strong finish.
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Beginning Couple End Goodness Strong
One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.
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Defeat Inspirational Motivational Secret Success Temporary

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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