“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
“Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.”
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Brian Tracy
“knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history ”
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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
“Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.”
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Brian Tracy
“When you train yourself, through repetition and practice, to overcome procrastination and get your most important tasks completed quickly, you will move yourself onto the fast track in your life and career and step on the accelerator.”
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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
“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
“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
“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.”
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Brian Tracy
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.”
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Brian Tracy
“The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, ‘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
“The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.”
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Brian Tracy
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”
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Brian Tracy
