Brian Tracy Quotes
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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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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Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.
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The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer
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If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.
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Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.
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You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?
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No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
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No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.
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The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.
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It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
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One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
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Your persistence is your belief in yourself.
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Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.
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Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.
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Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
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Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.
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If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
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Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.
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All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.
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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
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You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!
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Focus on your strengths.
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Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.