Brian Tracy famous quotes

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
-- Brian Tracy

#Luck #Harder #Predictable

I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.
-- Brian Tracy

#Thinking #Ideas #People

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inspirational #Life #Success

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?
-- Brian Tracy

#Speak #Very Good #Wells

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
-- Brian Tracy

#Philosophy #Practice #Littles

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

#People #Important #Done

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
-- Brian Tracy

#Positivity #Giving #Remember

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.
-- Brian Tracy

#Law #People #Want

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inspirational #Luck #Want

If you want to be in network marketing, you have to be extremely literate online.
-- Brian Tracy

#Marketing #Want #Online

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
-- Brian Tracy

#Positive #Successful #Helping Others

You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.
-- Brian Tracy

#America #Goal #Negativity

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
-- Brian Tracy

#Gratitude #Courage #Attitude

It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
-- Brian Tracy

#Goal #Needs #Matter

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
-- Brian Tracy

#Careers #Done #Proportion

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.
-- Brian Tracy

#Successful #Skills #Two

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.
-- Brian Tracy

#Opportunity #May #Wanted

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.
-- Brian Tracy

#Cheer #Attitude #Winning

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
-- Brian Tracy

#Attitude #Victim #Masters

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
-- Brian Tracy

#Hard Work #Successful #Years

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself
-- Brian Tracy

#Business #Mistake #Life Changing

How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.
-- Brian Tracy

#Home #Successful #Careers

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."
-- Brian Tracy

#Principles #Wealth #Fortune

Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."
-- Brian Tracy

#Two #Numbers #People

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
-- Brian Tracy

#Confidence #Courage #Fear

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
-- Brian Tracy

#Mind #Quality #Locks

If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
-- Brian Tracy

#Book #Keys #People

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
-- Brian Tracy

#Success #Confidence #Needs

Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?
-- Brian Tracy

#Giving #Focus #Purpose

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
-- Brian Tracy

#Life #Positive #Attitude

People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.
-- Brian Tracy

#Smart #Thinking #People

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
-- Brian Tracy

#Giving #Expectations #Return

I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder
-- Brian Tracy

#Ideas #People #Giving

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.
-- Brian Tracy

#Use

My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
-- Brian Tracy

#Cancer #Profound #Important

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
-- Brian Tracy

#Action #Rapid Change #Rapids

So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.
-- Brian Tracy

#Quality

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.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inspiration #Helping Others #Giving

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."
-- Brian Tracy

#Talking #Numbers #People

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
-- Brian Tracy

#Positive #Integrity

I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.
-- Brian Tracy

#Book #Reading #Writing

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.
-- Brian Tracy

#Goal #Determined #Reason

My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.
-- Brian Tracy

#Teaching #Writing #Two

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
-- Brian Tracy

#Motivational #Self #Careers

The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.
-- Brian Tracy

#Giving #Dollars #Way

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
-- Brian Tracy

#Success #People #Habit

80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.
-- Brian Tracy

#Thinking #Years #Creative

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
-- Brian Tracy

#Encouraging #Say Anything #Want

You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"
-- Brian Tracy

#Thinking #People #Benefits

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.
-- Brian Tracy

#Real #Achievement #Desire

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.
-- Brian Tracy

#Past #Today #Results

Everybody has a need for speed and you actually make your product, or service, or services more attractive when you do them fast.
-- Brian Tracy

#Needs #Speed #Attractive

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.
-- Brian Tracy

#Jobs #Valuable #Indispensable

No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.
-- Brian Tracy

#Successful #Past #Miracle

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
-- Brian Tracy

#Positive #Optimism #Quality

All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!
-- Brian Tracy

#Needs #Use #Development

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
-- Brian Tracy

#Positive #Attitude #Expectations

The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.
-- Brian Tracy

#Relationship #Together #Glue

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
-- Brian Tracy

#Change #Goal #Favors

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
-- Brian Tracy

#Greatness #Guarantees #Mark

Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.
-- Brian Tracy

#Jobs #Commitment #Careers

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
-- Brian Tracy

#Happiness #Jobs #Memories

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
-- Brian Tracy

#Commitment #Important #Needs

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
-- Brian Tracy

#Attitude #Succeed #Difficulty

Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.
-- Brian Tracy

#Believe #Mean #People

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
-- Brian Tracy

#Knowledge #Self Confidence #Students

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.
-- Brian Tracy

#Care #Prospecting #Following

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
-- Brian Tracy

#Failure #Finals #Trends

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
-- Brian Tracy

#Success #Business #Moving

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.
-- Brian Tracy

#Responsibility #Understanding #Accepting

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
-- Brian Tracy

#Sports #Purpose #Organize

You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today.
-- Brian Tracy

#Mind #Today #Your Future

There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.
-- Brian Tracy

#Way #Results #Accidents

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inspirational #Thinking #Leader

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
-- Brian Tracy

#Maturity #Mature #Hallmark

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.
-- Brian Tracy

#Confidence #Self Esteem #People

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
-- Brian Tracy

#Positive #Expectations #Events

Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.
-- Brian Tracy

#Self Confidence #Live Your Life #Increase

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
-- Brian Tracy

#Fear #Keys #Focus

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.
-- Brian Tracy

#Men #He Man #Circumstances

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inspirational #Responsibility #People

Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.
-- Brian Tracy

#Jobs #Looks #Done

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
-- Brian Tracy

#Inspirational #Running #Perfect

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.
-- Brian Tracy

#Optimistic #Acting #Way

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
-- Brian Tracy

#Running #Average #Circles

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.
-- Brian Tracy

#Reflection #Thinking #Life Is

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
-- Brian Tracy

#Commitment #Acceptance #Excellence

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

#Business #Successful #Simple

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.
-- Brian Tracy

#Pressure #Faster #Under Pressure

Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
-- Brian Tracy

#Decision

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
-- Brian Tracy

#Interesting #Achievement #Effort

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
-- Brian Tracy

#Discipline #Doe #Very Good

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
-- Brian Tracy

#Successful #People #Care

The more you like yourself, the better you perform in everything that you do.
-- Brian Tracy

#Like You #Like Yourself

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
-- Brian Tracy

#Confidence #Self Confidence #Self

You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.
-- Brian Tracy

#Regret #Never Regret #Kind

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
-- Brian Tracy

#Goal #Desire #Overcoming

To earn more, you must learn more.
-- Brian Tracy

The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
-- Brian Tracy

#Thinking #Discipline #Want

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
-- Brian Tracy

#Desire #May #Action