Harvey Mackay Quotes

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

There is something to this vision thing.

It’s quite difficult to find the time for strategic thought.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.