You must develop the ability to know the difference between a real problem and an imaginary one.
MARY KAY ASHUnlike 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.
More Mary Kay Ash Quotes
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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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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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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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You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price.
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I believe that most successful people are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
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To me, P and L doesn’t only mean profit and loss – it also means people and love.
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Recognition is the most powerful of all motivating techniques.
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Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.
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Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.
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Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.
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There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
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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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Fear is faith that it won’t work.
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In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
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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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