Brian Tracy Quotes & Sayings

Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit. — Brian Tracy

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. — Brian Tracy

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably. — Brian Tracy

Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear." - MARK TWAIN — Brian Tracy

Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values. — Brian Tracy

Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person. — Brian Tracy

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control — 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

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. — Brian Tracy

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. — Brian Tracy

To earn more, you must learn more. — Brian Tracy

Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much. — Brian Tracy

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them. — Brian Tracy

You can become proficient with a computer. You can become a terrific negotiator or a super salesperson. You can learn to speak in public. You can learn to write effectively and well. These are all skills you can acquire as soon as you decide to and make them a priority. Three — Brian Tracy

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves. — Brian Tracy

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. — Brian Tracy

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way. — Brian Tracy

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay. — Brian Tracy

Ideas are a mode of transportation, a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. — Brian Tracy

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

A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not. — Brian Tracy

All skills are learnable. — Brian Tracy

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor. — Brian Tracy

Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with; good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. — Brian Tracy

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. — Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. — Brian Tracy

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside. — Brian Tracy

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done. — Brian Tracy

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

People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships. — Brian Tracy

Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct. — Brian Tracy

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline. — 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

You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has. — Brian Tracy

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality. — Brian Tracy

The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book. This — Brian Tracy

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

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. — Brian Tracy

Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right. — Brian Tracy

Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution. — Brian Tracy

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. — Brian Tracy

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself. — Brian Tracy

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won. — Brian Tracy

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

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. — Brian Tracy

What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It's thinking! — Brian Tracy

Cast aside your doubts. Make a total commitment to living the life you were meant to live. — Brian Tracy

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential. — Brian Tracy

Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life. — Brian Tracy

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). — Brian Tracy

The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies. — Brian Tracy

I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win! — Brian Tracy

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom. — Brian Tracy

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you. — Brian Tracy

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown. — Brian Tracy

I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you. — Brian Tracy

The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important a task really is to you and to your company. — Brian Tracy

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. — Brian Tracy

The starting point of high performance is for you to identify the key result areas of your work. Discuss them with your boss. Make a list of your most important output responsibilities, and make sure that the people above you, on the same level as you, and below you are in agreement with it. For — Brian Tracy

What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future. — Brian Tracy

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become. — Brian Tracy

A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular role, you perform at your best in that role. — Brian Tracy

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

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time. — Brian Tracy

It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy. — Brian Tracy

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

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems. — Brian Tracy

F you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen ... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best. — Brian Tracy

Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money." — Brian Tracy

Focus on your strengths. — Brian Tracy

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. — Brian Tracy

When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done. — Brian Tracy

This is a wonderful time to be alive. There have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals than exist today. — Brian Tracy

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first. — Brian Tracy

Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future. — Brian Tracy

The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it. — Brian Tracy

If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal. — Brian Tracy

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind — Brian Tracy

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines. — Brian Tracy

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

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect. — Brian Tracy

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

There is an old saying that by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch! — Brian Tracy

Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations.
Your expectations determine your attitude.
Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people.
And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you. — Brian Tracy

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into. — Brian Tracy

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

If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long! — Brian Tracy

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. — Brian Tracy

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them. — Brian Tracy

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success. — Brian Tracy

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. — 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

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead. — Brian Tracy

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift. — Brian Tracy

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it. — Brian Tracy

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go. — Brian Tracy

The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries. — Brian Tracy

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

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer — Brian Tracy

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