Brian Tracy

Author

1944-01-05

Canadian-American author and motivational speaker known for books and seminars on personal development, leadership, and business performance. He has published widely on productivity and goal setting. His work has influenced self-improvement and sales training audiences internationally.

Quotes by Brian Tracy

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
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Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
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Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
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Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.
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You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
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The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.
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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good.
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No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
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Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
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Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
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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 very part of your life.
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Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
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If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
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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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