“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” —CLARE BOOTHE LUCE When things go wrong, when you experience sudden reversals and disappointments, your natural tendency will be to respond with negativity, fear, and anger. Whenever you feel hurt or threatened by loss or criticism, you react to protect yourself with the fight-or-flight response. As a leader, your first job is to take firm control over your mind and emotions, and then to take control over the situation, in that order. Leaders focus on the future, not the past. They focus on what can be done now to resolve the problem or improve the situation. They focus on what is under their control, their next decisions and actions. You must do the same.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.”
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Brian Tracy
“No person or situation can make you
feel anything-it is only the way you think about a situation that
makes you feel the way you do.”
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Brian Tracy
“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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Brian Tracy
“It Doesn’t Matter Where You Came From. All That Matters Is Where You Are Going”
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Brian Tracy
“Just find out what other successful people do and do the same things until you get the same results. Learn from the experts. Wow! What an idea. Success”
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Brian Tracy
“Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place.”
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Brian Tracy
“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
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Brian Tracy
“One way to stop worrying and get the courage to begin is to plan and prepare thoroughly in advance. Set clear goals and objectives, then gather information. Read and research books and blogs in your chosen field. Write out detailed plans of action, and then take the first step towards relieving stress.”
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Brian Tracy
“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.”
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Brian Tracy
“Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.”
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Brian Tracy
“If you don’t spend quality time with your loved ones or do things that are important in your life, someone or something less important will take up your time. 3)”
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Brian Tracy
“An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”
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Brian Tracy
“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”
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Brian Tracy
“There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.”
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Brian Tracy
