Brian Tracy Quotes

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality.

Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.

We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Don't fall in love with your own excuses.

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.

Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

Treat objections as requests for further information.