Quotes from Brian Tracy

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

Don't fall in love with your own excuses.

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

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?"

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?

You can only have as much love for yourself as you can express to others.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first. This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.