Mary Kay Ash Quotes

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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Feeling Important Information Listening Necessary Person Yourself
Never, absolutely never, compromise your principles.
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Compromise Principle 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
Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.
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Believe Difference Doubt Feeling Myself Person Time World
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Achievement Enthusiasm Greatness
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
There’s a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
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Big Decision Difference Manager
Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better.
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People Performance Praise Response Yourself
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
The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.
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Better Enjoyment People Production Work
Each of us wants to feel good about himself or herself, but to me it is just as important to make others feel the same way.
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Feeling Goodness Herself Himself Important
People will support that which they help to create.
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Creation Help People Support Team
Left unattended, problems only intensify.
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Ignorance Intense One Liner Problem Solution
Don’t limit yourself.
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Limitation One Liner 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
You can go as far as your mind lets you.
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Inspirational Journey Mindset Motivational Travel Yourself
The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.
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Commitment Hard Yourself
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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Achievement Age Goodness Time
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
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Exercise Goal Goodness Yourself
You never really fail until you stop wanting.
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Failure Stop Yourself
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
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
People are happiest when they have goals, small and large, because they can look forward to attaining them.
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Accomplishment Goal Happiness People Small
Nothing happens until somebody sells something!
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Buy Money Price
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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Generosity God Inspirational Talent
To me, P and L doesn’t only mean profit and loss – it also means people and love.
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Loss Love Myself People Profit
If 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!
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Ideas Myself Team Work Togetherness Yourself

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