“If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!"
Brian Tracy says that your "frog" should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one you're most likely to procrastinate on; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don't...if you let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can drain your energy and you won't even know it.”
―
Brian Tracy
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
―
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.”
―
Brian Tracy
“There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!”
―
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.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Your behavior will guide the behavior of the other members of your team or the people in your organization.”
―
Brian Tracy
“You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough”
―
Brian Tracy
“Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.”
―
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.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.”
―
Brian Tracy
“The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”
―
Brian Tracy
“If there is an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes and
repeat the causes. If there is an effect in your life that you do not
enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and get rid of them.”
―
Brian Tracy
“What one great thing would you dare to dream, if you knew you could not fail?”
―
Brian Tracy
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
―
Brian Tracy
“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.”
―
Brian Tracy
