Top 792 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Tracy - Page 11

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

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

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.

As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

Continuously give without recollecting and get without overlooking dependably.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

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

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.

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

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.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and respect yourself, the more you like and respect other people. The more you consider yourself to be a valuable and worthwhile person, the more you consider others to be valuable and worthwhile as well. The more you accept yourself just as you are, the more you accept others just as they are.

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

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

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.

You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

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

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.

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.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.

Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.

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

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

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

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.

Nobody values your time but YOU.

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.

Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.

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

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.

A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.

Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

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.

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

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.

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you.

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

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).

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Become the very best in your business!

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

All skills are learnable.