Brian Tracy Quotes
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Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.
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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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Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!
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Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.
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Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
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Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.
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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.
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I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder
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If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
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One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
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Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.
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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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The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.
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How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
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Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.
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An undefined goal is unreachable.
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Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
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Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.
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If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.