Brian Tracy Quotes
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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.
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When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more.
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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
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Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
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In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .
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An undefined goal is unreachable.
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There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.
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Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.
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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
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You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.
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The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.
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Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
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The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.
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Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
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You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.
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Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.
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Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
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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.
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Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.
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The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
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After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?