Brian Tracy Quotes

Worry is negative goal setting.

According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

The future belongs to the competent

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

If there is no cure, you must endure.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.

Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.

My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.

You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?

Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.

You can only have as much love for yourself as you can express to others.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?