Brian Tracy Quotes

Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people. ~ Brian Tracy

If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again, you develop a habit. Some people develop the habit of courage. Some people develop the habit of non-courage. ~ Brian Tracy

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem. ~ Brian Tracy

You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically. ~ Brian Tracy

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. ~ Brian Tracy

Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener). ~ Brian Tracy

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST! ~ Brian Tracy

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else. ~ Brian Tracy

You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?" ~ Brian Tracy

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones. ~ Brian Tracy

Make a decision today that, from now on, you are going to eliminate all the "if only's" from your life. ~ Brian Tracy

You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me? ~ Brian Tracy

A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary. ~ Brian Tracy

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you
desire. ~ Brian Tracy

All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world! ~ Brian Tracy

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now. ~ Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers . ~ Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently. ~ Brian Tracy

Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself. ~ Brian Tracy

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today. ~ Brian Tracy

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question. ~ Brian Tracy

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. ~ Brian Tracy

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself ~ Brian Tracy

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. ~ Brian Tracy

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?' ~ Brian Tracy

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 ~ Brian Tracy

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently? ~ Brian Tracy

The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you. ~ Brian Tracy

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history ~ Brian Tracy

The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life. ~ Brian Tracy

Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can? ~ Brian Tracy

What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them. ~ Brian Tracy

Attention is our greatest asset. We all invariably attract what we give attention to. ~ Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy

The only way to overcome your fears is to do the thing you fear. ~ Brian Tracy

Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters. ~ Brian Tracy

There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over. ~ Brian Tracy

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed. ~ Brian Tracy

Priorities versus Posteriorities Setting priorities requires setting posteriorities as well. A priority is something that you do more of and sooner, whereas a posteriority is something you do less of or later. You are probably already overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time. Because of this, for you to embark on a new task, you must discontinue an old task. Getting into something new requires getting out of another activity. Before you commit to a new undertaking, ask yourself, "What am I going to stop doing so that I have enough time to work on this new task?" Go through your life regularly and practice "creative abandonment": Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future. ~ Brian Tracy

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you. ~ Brian Tracy

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively. ~ Brian Tracy

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. ~ Brian Tracy

The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone. ~ Brian Tracy

IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER. ~ Brian Tracy

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are. ~ Brian Tracy

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career? ~ Brian Tracy

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although
difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. ~ Brian Tracy

Truthfulness is the main element of character. ~ Brian Tracy

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. ~ Brian Tracy

As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse. ~ Brian Tracy

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. ~ Brian Tracy

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it. ~ Brian Tracy

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. ~ Brian Tracy

The PREP Formula Once you have your points, you can use the "PREP" formula for each point in your presentation. P: Point of View State your opinion, idea, or fact at the beginning. R: Reasons State your reasons for holding this point of view. E: Example Reinforce your point of view with an example. P: Point of View Restate your first "P" to emphasize your idea and to come full circle. ~ Brian Tracy

Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself. ~ Brian Tracy

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often. ~ Brian Tracy

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. ~ Brian Tracy

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first. ~ Brian Tracy

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end. ~ Brian Tracy

The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much. ~ Brian Tracy

Remind yourself that problems come not to obstruct, but to instruct. ~ Brian Tracy

Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think. ~ Brian Tracy

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. ~ Brian Tracy

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it. ~ Brian Tracy

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world. ~ Brian Tracy

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be. ~ Brian Tracy

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities. ~ Brian Tracy

Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind. ~ Brian Tracy

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
~ Brian Tracy

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask." ~ Brian Tracy

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success. ~ Brian Tracy

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis. ~ Brian Tracy

Three Steps to Mastery First, read in your field for at least one hour every day. Get up a little earlier in the morning and read for thirty to sixty minutes in a book or magazine that contains information that can help you to be more effective and productive at what you do. Second, ~ Brian Tracy

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage. ~ Brian Tracy

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability. ~ Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession. ~ Brian Tracy

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success. ~ Brian Tracy

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. ~ Brian Tracy

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself. ~ Brian Tracy

You are always self-employed. You are always the president of your own personal services corporation, no matter where you might be working at the moment. When you see yourself as self-employed, you develop the entrepreneur mentality. The mentality of the highly independent, self-responsible, self-starting individual. Instead of waiting for things to happen, you make things happen. You see yourself as the boss of your own life. You see yourself as completely in charge of your physical health, your financial well-being, your career, your relationships, your home, your car, and every element of your existence. This is the mindset of the truly excellent person. ~ Brian Tracy

All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way. ~ Brian Tracy

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production. ~ Brian Tracy

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful. ~ Brian Tracy

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals. ~ Brian Tracy

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. ~ Brian Tracy

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need. ~ Brian Tracy

Josh Billings once wrote, It ain't what a man knows what hurts him. It's what he knows what ain't true. ~ Brian Tracy

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time. ~ Brian Tracy

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." ~ Brian Tracy

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited. ~ Brian Tracy

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. ~ Brian Tracy

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore. ~ Brian Tracy

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. ~ Brian Tracy

If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it. ~ Brian Tracy

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions. ~ Brian Tracy

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! ~ Brian Tracy

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful. ~ Brian Tracy

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built. ~ Brian Tracy

Success comes in cans, not can'ts. ~ Brian Tracy

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. ~ Brian Tracy

There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence . ~ Brian Tracy