“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
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Brian Tracy
“Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.”
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Brian Tracy
“Practice "zero-based thinking" in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, "If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?" If it is something you would not start again today, knowing what you now know, it is a prime candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination.”
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Brian Tracy
“You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.”
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Brian Tracy
“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”
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Brian Tracy
“When you set more goals, try more things, engage in more activities, and explore more opportunities, your probabilities of success increase dramatically.”
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Brian Tracy
“Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true”
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Brian Tracy
“You can’t decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.”
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Brian Tracy
“What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It’s thinking!”
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Brian Tracy
“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”
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Brian Tracy
“Are your goals backed by burning desire or are you giving the Universe mixed signals?”
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Brian Tracy
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everyone else.” —HENRY WARD BEECHER, NINETEENTH-CENTURY CLERGYMAN”
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Brian Tracy
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”
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Brian Tracy
“The law of Forced Efficiency says that "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”
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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