Quotes from Brian Tracy

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.

There is an old saying that by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.

I found that every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly 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.

knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

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.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

Say no to anything that is not a high-value use of your time and your life.

If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.

The Law of Forced Efficiency says, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.

What are your three most important business or career goals right now? What are your three most important family or relationship goals right now? What are your three most important financial goals right now? What are your three most important health goals right now? What are your three most important personal and professional development goals right now? What are your three most important social and community goals right now? What are your three biggest problems or concerns in life right now?

Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable. And what others have learned, you can learn as well.

Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear." —MARK TWAIN

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

It is impossible to succeed without failing.

If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.

Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.