"Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be."
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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"The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you."
"Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true."
"Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence."
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."
"The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves."
"As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long."
"I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all."
"The price of success must be paid in full, in advance."
"Your persistence is your belief in yourself."
"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."
"Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time."
"The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success."
"According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis."
"Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them ."
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first."
"Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind."
"The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it."
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."
"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it."