Brian Tracy Quotes

#1. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

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

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#3. 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?'

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#4. Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

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#5. Become the very best in your business!

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#6. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

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#7. Your future largely depends on what you learn and practice from this moment onward.

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

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#9. To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

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#10. The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

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#11. If you want to be successful faster, you must double your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

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#12. If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

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#13. Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.

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

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#15. Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

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#16. A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

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

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#18. Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place.

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

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#20. Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.

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#21. Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

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#22. We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.

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#23. The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

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#24. Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

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#25. 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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#26. 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.

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#27. Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.

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#28. Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

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#29. Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

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#30. When you train yourself, through repetition and practice, to overcome procrastination and get your most important tasks completed quickly, you will move yourself onto the fast track in your life and career and step on the accelerator.

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#31. Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

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#32. Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

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#33. 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).

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#34. I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

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#35. 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?

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#36. Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

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#37. How shall we live in order to be happy? Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself - and then to follow where your answer leads you - will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

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#38. No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.

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#39. Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

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#40. There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn.

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#41. I believe in the perfect outcome
of every situation in my life.

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#42. Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

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#43. The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

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#44. The only time you'll ever have is now.

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#45. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

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

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#47. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

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#48. Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

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#49. The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

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#50. Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

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#51. Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

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#52. The key to success is to develop a winning edge.

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#53. In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

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#54. 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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#55. People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

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#56. Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

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#57. In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.

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#58. Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

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#59. If there is an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes and
repeat the causes. If there is an effect in your life that you do not
enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and get rid of them.

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#60. IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

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#61. If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.

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#62. The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

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#63. The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

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#64. Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

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#65. There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

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

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#67. Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

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#68. 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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#69. Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.

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#70. 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.

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#71. Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

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#72. The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.

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

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#74. Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Learn from the experts. Wow! What an idea. Success

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#75. The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you
want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

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#76. In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

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#77. Rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and creating checklists will save you ten minutes in execution and getting the job done. This

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#78. What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It's thinking!

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#79. The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships.

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#80. The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

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#81. Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute.

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#82. Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

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#83. Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

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#84. 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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#85. Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

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#86. Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

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#87. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

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#88. Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

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#89. All lasting wealth comes from enriching others in some way.

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#90. Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

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#91. Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

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#92. If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

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#93. Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

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#94. We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

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#95. Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it.

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#96. Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

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#97. Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.

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#98. Truthfulness is the main element of character.

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#99. 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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#100. Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

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