Mary Kay Ash People Quotations

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Real strength entails being considerate and supportive of people's feelings.

Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.

You cannot keep determined people for success.

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

People will support that which they help to create.

People fail forward to success.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

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.

Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.