Quotes by Brian Tracy

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances.

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.

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, I could be wrong; I often am.' It's true.

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

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation.

Never say anything about yourself that you do not want to come true.

Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers.

Time management is really personal management, life management. and management of yourself.

You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you set for yourself. There are no limits except the limits you place on your imagination.

Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.

The establishment of a clear,central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.

Consistency paired with self-discipline is crucial to achieving your goals and being successful.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

All skills are learnable.

Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

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.

Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

Personal development is a major time-saver. The better you become, the less time it takes you to achieve your goals.

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

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

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to customers.

Everybody has a need for speed and you actually make your product, or service, or services more attractive when you do them fast.

Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.

The key to success is to develop a winning edge.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10 90 rule.

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.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment.

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

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

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.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!

Success is predictable.

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

People will pay a dollar for a program with information, but they'll pay $ 10 for a program with information plus a story.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

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.

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

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.

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness.

When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.

There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

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.

Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.

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.

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

Sometimes you can defuse a difficult situation simply by being willing to understand the other person. Often all that people need is to know that someone else cares about how they feel and it attempting to understand their position.

Don't fall in love with your own excuses.

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do and do it yourself.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

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

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years?

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

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.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word, ask.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.

Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.

The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.

Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Offer your customers a long-term relationship, then do everything possible to build and maintain it.

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

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

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.

People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

If you want to be in network marketing, you have to be extremely literate online.