“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.”
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Brian Tracy
“The starting point of high performance is for you to identify the key result areas of your work. Discuss them with your boss. Make a list of your most important output responsibilities, and make sure that the people above you, on the same level as you, and below you are in agreement with it. For”
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Brian Tracy
“Your life only gets better when you get better.”
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Brian Tracy
“Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.”
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Brian Tracy
“A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular role, you perform at your best in that role.”
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Brian Tracy
“Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.
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Brian Tracy
“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
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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
“In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.”
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Brian Tracy
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.”
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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
“Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.”
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Brian Tracy
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
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Brian Tracy
“The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.”
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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
