Brian Tracy

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure."

- Brian Tracy

"Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward."

- Brian Tracy

"Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what’s right before you decide what’s possible."

- Brian Tracy

"Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Brian Tracy

""Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.""

- Brian Tracy

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation."

- 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

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

- Brian Tracy

"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."

- Brian Tracy

"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."

- Brian Tracy

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."

- Brian Tracy

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have."

- Brian Tracy

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"

- Brian Tracy

"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."

- Brian Tracy

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"Approach each customer with the idea of helping [them] to solve a problem or achieve a goal, not [just] selling a product or service."

- Brian Tracy

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?'"

- Brian Tracy

"Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers."

- Brian Tracy

"Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves."

- Brian Tracy

"You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?""

- Brian Tracy

"The ability to focus is a defining characteristic of successful individuals."

- Brian Tracy

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."

- Brian Tracy

"A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights."

- Brian Tracy

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."

- 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

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

- 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

"Keep yourself positive, cheerful and goal-oriented. Sales success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals."

- Brian Tracy

"Maturity is when you stop blaming others for your problems and take ownership of your own life."

- Brian Tracy

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation"

- Brian Tracy

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your life around it."

- Brian Tracy

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."

- Brian Tracy

"Spend 80% of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

- Brian Tracy

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

- Brian Tracy

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

- Brian Tracy

"Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do."

- Brian Tracy

"The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!"

- Brian Tracy

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"

- Brian Tracy

"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."

- Brian Tracy

"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."

- Brian Tracy

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

- Brian Tracy

"The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly."

- Brian Tracy

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

"Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team."

- Brian Tracy

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

- Brian Tracy

"Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load."

- Brian Tracy

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

- Brian Tracy

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your personal goals, then it’s moving you away from your personal goals."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

"At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start."

- Brian Tracy

"You have within you right now everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"If you achieve all kinds of things in the material world, but you lose your health or your peace of mind, you get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments."

- Brian Tracy

"Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it."

- Brian Tracy

"You must take personal responsibility."

- Brian Tracy

"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts."

- Brian Tracy

"Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you."

- Brian Tracy

"The way you communicate is a direct reflection of how you feel about others."

- Brian Tracy

"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."

- Brian Tracy

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

- Brian Tracy

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses."

- Brian Tracy

"Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments."

- Brian Tracy

"The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people."

- Brian Tracy

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."

- Brian Tracy

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

- Brian Tracy

"Develop an ‘Attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you"

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

"The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance."

- Brian Tracy

"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."

- Brian Tracy

"You can’t put a limit on how much you can improve and how much you can do. There are no limits on what you can be, or what you can do, except the limits you place on yourself."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking"

- 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

"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

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

- Brian Tracy

"A small daily progress adds up to large results over time."

- Brian Tracy

"Face-to-face selling is still the most powerful human communication tool"

- 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

"Treat objections as requests for further information."

- Brian Tracy

"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."

- Brian Tracy

"Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else."

- Brian Tracy

"Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably."

- Brian Tracy

"Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is a pathway to it."

- Brian Tracy

"One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented."

- Brian Tracy

"Dream big! There are no limitations to how good you can become or how high you can rise except the limits you put on yourself."

- Brian Tracy

"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."

- Brian Tracy

"Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life."

- Brian Tracy

"The fundamental glue that keeps a relationship together is trust."

- Brian Tracy

"Time management is not a peripheral activity or skill. It is the core skill upon which everything else in life depends."

- Brian Tracy

"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."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

"Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth. The ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life."

- Brian Tracy

"You can only grow if you’re willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

"If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."

- Brian Tracy

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

- Brian Tracy

"Billionaires are created by a mindset. It is a decision, not an event."

- Brian Tracy

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits"

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

""Treat objections as requests for further information.""

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."

- Brian Tracy

"Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do."

- Brian Tracy

"Leaders set high standards, refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

- Brian Tracy

"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."

- Brian Tracy

"A goal without a plan is only a dream."

- Brian Tracy

"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people."

- Brian Tracy

"The key to success is to develop a winning edge."

- Brian Tracy

"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."

- Brian Tracy

"If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you’re letting others hold you as an emotional hostage."

- Brian Tracy

""A goal without a plan is only a dream.""

- Brian Tracy

""Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.""

- Brian Tracy

"Results happen with purposeful daily action."

- Brian Tracy

"Everything is Learnable"

- Brian Tracy

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

- Brian Tracy