Brian Tracy Quotes
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A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
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Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
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Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.
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Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
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It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!
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The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.
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Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.
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Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital.
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If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
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Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.
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Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
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Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.
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There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.
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Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.
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Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
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Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
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Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
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Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.
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You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.
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I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.
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To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
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There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
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If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?