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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

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
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Animal Eat Time Yourself
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
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Choice Decision Myself People Person Wonderful World
The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.
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Commitment Hard Yourself
I’ve never yet met a person who didn’t want to be appreciated.
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Myself Person Praise
You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.
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Inspirational Move Stand Yourself
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
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Exercise Goal Goodness Yourself
Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.
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Achievement Beginning Big Mindset Small
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
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
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
Every person should have a lifetime self-improvement program.
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Improvement Life Myself Person Program Time
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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Dare Death Live Music People Play Try
Don’t let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible.
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Control Dreams Life Negative Possible Rise 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
Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.
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Achievement Greatness Path Small Success
One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.
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Day Dreams Inspirational Intense Motivational Worth
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
What the world thinks of me is none of my business.
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Business Myself Thinking World
Think in terms of what’s good for the other person and success will seek you out.
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Goodness Person Seek Success Thinking 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
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
Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right.
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Attitude Determination Right Thinking True Yourself
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
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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Care Death Goal Herself Life Live Purpose
If you act enthusiastic, you will become enthusiastic. A mediocre mind that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
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Act Enthusiasm Greatness Ideas Inspirational Mindset Oneself
I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say I’ve always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed.
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Best Disappoint Failure Honesty Learning Myself Teaching Time
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

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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