Brian Tracy Quotes
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Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.
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The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
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Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.
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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
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Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!
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Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
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Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.
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Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
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Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.
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Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.
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Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.
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Treat objections as requests for further information.
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Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
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Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
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Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
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Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.
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Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.
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Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.
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The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
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Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.