Brian Tracy Quotes

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years?

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .

Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

This powerful, practical book, based on years of proven and profi table experience, shows you how to leverage your special talents to maximize the opportunities surrounding you. The Compound Effect is a treasure chest of ideas for achieving greater success than you ever thought possible!

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

All skills are learnable.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.