“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
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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
“Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long. Your”
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Brian Tracy
“How shall we live in order to be happy?” Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.”
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Brian Tracy
“Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”
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Brian Tracy
“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
“The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.”
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Brian Tracy
“Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
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Brian Tracy
“You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.”
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Brian Tracy
“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
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Brian Tracy
“Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
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Brian Tracy
“Success is the ability to solve problems as well. A goal or an objective unachieved, in any area, is merely a problem unsolved. This is why a systematic approach to problem solving, one that works at a higher level and more consistently, is absolutely vital for you to achieve the maximum success that is possible for you. Think”
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Brian Tracy
“Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution.”
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Brian Tracy
