Top 792 Quotes & Sayings by Brian Tracy - Page 8

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

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

You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

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.

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.

When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.

80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

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.

It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

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

Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people.

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.

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.

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.

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

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?

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

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.

Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.

The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it . . . soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.

You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.

All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!

The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more.

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

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

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.