"Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important."
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
Brian Tracy is a renowned author and speaker known for his expertise in personal development and success strategies.
- Born
- January 5, 1944
- Quotes
- 785
- Rank
- #328
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Brian Tracy quotes (page 27 of 40)
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"Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance."
"One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential."
"Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil."
"If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?"
"Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life."
"There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile."
"Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop."
"Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive."
"When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence."
"Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts."
"In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results."
"Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe.""
"Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day."
"To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence."
"All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!"
"It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master."
"When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more."
"Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself."
"Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions."