“An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”
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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
“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
“You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.”
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Brian Tracy
“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you are now and the goals you intend to reach. EARL NIGHTINGALE”
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Brian Tracy
“Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Brian Tracy
“Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later.”
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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
“Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.”
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Brian Tracy
“The Law of Forced Efficiency says, “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things.”
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Brian Tracy
“In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .”
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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
“if you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.”
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Brian Tracy
“Josh Billings once wrote, “It ain’t what a man knows what hurts him. It’s what he knows what ain’t true.”
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Brian Tracy
