“The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.”
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Brian Tracy
“Communicating is like that, because the way we communicate with our children shows how we feel about ourselves.”
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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
“Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.”
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Brian Tracy
“People invariably seek the fastest and easiest way to get the things they want, right now, with little or no concern for the long-term consequences of their behaviors.”
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Brian Tracy
“The most important contribution you can make to your company is to be a leader, accept responsibility for results, and dare to go forward.”
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Brian Tracy
“Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it.”
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Brian Tracy
“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.”
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Brian Tracy
“The fact is that your productivity begins to decline after eight or nine hours of work. For this reason, working long hours into the night, although it is sometimes necessary, means that you are usually producing less and less in more and more time. The more tired you become, the worse the quality of your work will be and the more mistakes you will make. At a certain point, you can reach “the wall” and simply be unable to continue, like a battery that is run down.”
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Brian Tracy
“What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?”
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Brian Tracy
“If you don't set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.”
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Brian Tracy
“The great summary statement of all religions, philosophies, metaphysics, psychology, and success is this: You become what you think about most of the time. Your outer world ultimately becomes a reflection of your inner world. Your outer world of experience mirrors back to you what you think about most of the time. Whatever you think about continuously emerges in your reality.”
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Brian Tracy
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
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Brian Tracy
“How shall we live in order to be happy?” Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.”
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Brian Tracy