Brian Tracy Quotes
The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.
Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.
The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.
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.
The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.
A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
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.
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.
Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.
Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
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.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.
Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.
Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.
Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.
Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!
The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
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.
Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.
Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.