Brian Tracy Quotes

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect other people. The more you consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you consider others to be valuable and worthwhile as well. The more you accept yourself just as you are, the more you accept others just as they are.

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.

Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies.

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.

Sometimes you can defuse a difficult situation simply by being willing to understand the other person. Often all that people need is to know that someone else cares about how they feel and it attempting to understand their position.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live.

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.