Brian Tracy Quotes
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Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
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To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
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According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.
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You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
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When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
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Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.
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So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.
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You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
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Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?
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The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it
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Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
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Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision
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Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
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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.
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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.