Brian Tracy Quotes

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

The only time you'll ever have is now.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

To earn more, you must learn more.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.

People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.

Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.