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.
MARY KAY ASHNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
More Mary Kay Ash Quotes
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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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Make people who work for you feel important. If you honor and serve them, they’ll honor and serve you.
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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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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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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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I’ve never yet met a person who didn’t want to be appreciated.
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
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You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping stones and climb to new heights.
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You must develop the ability to know the difference between a real problem and an imaginary one.
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Think about it, no one can win a race in which he had given up. You can’t win a battle for which you have surrendered.
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We didn’t set the world on fire from the first day. Disappointments, setbacks and work created the company as it is today.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.
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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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Every person should have a lifetime self-improvement program.
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Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.
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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!
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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.
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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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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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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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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
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One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.
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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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What’s interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.
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