You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
MARY KAY ASH
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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!
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Help other people get what they want – and you’ll get what you want.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash 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.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash 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.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash 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.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Dare to risk public criticism.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it’s too late.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash 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.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash People fall forward to success.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Fear is faith that it won’t work.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels Happiness is like a butterfly.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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Ray KrocRay Kroc If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
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