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You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.

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
I believe that most successful people are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
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Believe Determination Extraordinary Myself Ordinary People Success
We didn’t set the world on fire from the first day. Disappointments, setbacks and work created the company as it is today.
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Company Creation Day Disappoint Fire Work World
I’ve never yet met a person who didn’t want to be appreciated.
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Myself Person Praise
Real leaders aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
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Afraid Dirty Hands Leadership Reality
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
Dare to risk public criticism.
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Criticism Dare One Liner Risk
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
Nothing happens until somebody sells something!
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Buy Money Price
An average person with average talents and average ambition can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society; if that person has clear focused goals.
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Ambition Average Brilliant Focus Genius Goal Person Society Talent
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
Never, absolutely never, compromise your principles.
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Compromise Principle Yourself
Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better.
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People Performance Praise Response Yourself
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
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Achievement Believe Limitation Mindset People Remember Thinking Yourself
Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.
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Care Enough Leadership Motivational Teaching
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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You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.

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