Brian Tracy Quotes
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There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect other people. The more you consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you consider others to be valuable and worthwhile as well. The more you accept yourself just as you are, the more you accept others just as they are.
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The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.
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Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
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The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.
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Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
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You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.
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Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.
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...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.
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Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.
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Everybody has a need for speed and you actually make your product, or service, or services more attractive when you do them fast.
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Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
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Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
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You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.
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Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.
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You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.
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Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.
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What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.
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If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
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You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.