“Stephen Covey says, “Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.” Step”
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Brian Tracy
“Truthfulness is the main element of character.”
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Brian Tracy
“The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book.
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Brian Tracy
“The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us of
happiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we are
capable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,
unhappiness and problems in human relationships.”
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Brian Tracy
“You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them.”
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Brian Tracy
“When in doubt, check if your actions are aligned with your purpose.”
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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
“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
“You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you
put in.”
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Brian Tracy
“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
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Brian Tracy
“The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you
want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
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Brian Tracy
“rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and creating checklists will save you ten minutes in execution and getting the job done
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Brian Tracy
“Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses. It is self-discipline that enables you to “vote yourself off the island.” It is the key to a great life and, without it, no lasting success is possible.”
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Brian Tracy
“Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later." Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. Don't expect perfection the first time or even the first few times. Be prepared to fail over and over before you get it right. The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger. The only way to overcome your fears is to "do the thing you fear,”
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Brian Tracy
