“The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all...
...58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates...
...43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level... they are functionally illiterate... fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a job at McDonald’s...”
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Brian Tracy
“The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.”
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Brian Tracy
“The better and more persuasively you speak, the more you like yourself. The more you like yourself, the more optimistic and confident you are. The more you like yourself, the more positive and personable you are in your relationships with others. The more you like yourself, the healthier, happier, and more positive you become in everything you do.”
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Brian Tracy
“A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“You become what you think about most of the time”
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Brian Tracy
“Your subject should always answer the question “What is the problem to be solved?” or “What is the job to be done?” A”
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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
“The Future belongs to the competent get good, get better, be the best !”
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Brian Tracy
“Future intent influences and often determines present actions.”
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Brian Tracy
“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
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Brian Tracy
“THE FIRST SECRET of self-made millionaires is simple: Dream Big Dreams!”
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Brian Tracy
“There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!”
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Brian Tracy
“Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.”
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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