Brian Tracy Quotes
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To earn more, you must learn more.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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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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Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.
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The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.
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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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In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
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If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.
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Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.
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Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
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Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
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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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Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.
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You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.
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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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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
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When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.
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Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
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Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you
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How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
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If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
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The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.