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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.

Mary Kay Ash

In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don’t like to do.
MARY KAY ASH

Fact Learning Pay 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
The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.
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Better Enjoyment People Production Work
Never, absolutely never, compromise your principles.
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Compromise Principle Yourself
Forcing myself to think positively did wonders for my spirit. I was able to overcome the discontent inside me, and my old enthusiasm slowly returned.
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Enthusiasm Force Myself Old Positive Return Spiritual Thinking Wonderful
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
There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through.
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Solution Way
I believe that most successful people are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.
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Believe Determination Extraordinary Myself Ordinary People Success
I’ve never yet met a person who didn’t want to be appreciated.
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Myself Person Praise
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
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
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Fly Inspirational Motivational Science
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
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
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
I believe that work if often the best antidote for grief.
MARY KAY ASH

Believe Grief Work

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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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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