Brian Tracy Quotes

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.

You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind.

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves

Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.

A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.

Success comes in cans, not can'ts.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Network marketing is based purely on relationship selling, which is the state of the art in selling today. Small and large companies throughout the country and the world are realizing that individuals selling to their friends and associates is the future of sales, because the critical element in buying is trust.

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.