Harvey Mackay Quotes

You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong.

Bad situations can always get worse.

I'm not a 'but' man. Nothing good ever comes of that word.

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.

Bad news is just an excuse.

No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and place of the gifted pickle sucker!

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.