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 ASHIf you have an idea and I have an idea – then we EACH have JUST ONE idea; but if you share your idea with me and I do the same, we EACH have TWO ideas!
More Mary Kay Ash Quotes
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The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.
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Left unattended, problems only intensify.
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Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.
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Don’t limit yourself.
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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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Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.
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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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Give yourself something to work toward – constantly.
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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.
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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.
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The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
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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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One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.
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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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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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People fall forward to success.
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Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.
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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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Make people who work for you feel important. If you honor and serve them, they’ll honor and serve you.
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What the world thinks of me is none of my business.
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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 first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.
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I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.
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We are meant to use and increase whatever God has given us. And when we do, we shall be given more.
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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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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
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