Harvey Mackay Quotes

I work to please my audience.

Please all and you please none.

We have not fully pleased anybody and that's a good sign.

I think the danger is to try and please everyone.

It's incredibly difficult to make sure that everybody's happy.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

Married people dont look like they have bedrooms on their minds when they look at each other. In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both...Not both.

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

I always tell the producers, if I can't get the girl at the end of the picture, at least give me more money.

The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.