Quotes from Brian Tracy

What I learned was that in order to achive great success in life, you must become a special kind of person. To rise above the majority, you must develop qualities and disciplines that the average person lacks.

The fact is that successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again—over and over again—before they finally win.

had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true.

You are a "choosing organism." You are constantly making choices, one way or the other. Every choice you make is a statement about your true values and priorities. At each moment, you choose what is more important or of higher value to you over what is less important or of lesser value.

Once you have decided upon your goal, ask yourself, "Why am I not there already?" What is holding you back? Why haven't you achieved that goal up to now?

When you choose the higher value over the lower, the more difficult over the easy, the right over the wrong, you feel good about yourself. Your self-esteem increases. You like and respect yourself more. You have a greater sense of personal pride.

ideas y desarrollas otros nuevos. No importa de dónde vienes, lo que de verdad importa es a dónde vas. Y esto únicamente está limitado por tu imaginación.

rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and creating checklists will save you ten minutes in execution and getting the job done. This

Between you and anything you want to accomplish you will always find problems or obstacles of some kind. This is why success is sometimes defined as the ability to solve problems.

In addition to feeling excellent about yourself when you behave with character, you also earn the respect and esteem of all the people around you. They will look up to you and admire you. Doors will be opened for you. People will help you. You will be paid more, promoted faster, and given even greater responsibilities. As you become a person of honor and character, opportunities will appear all around you.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." – Rumi

One of the keys to your living a wonderful life, having a successful career, and feeling terrific about yourself is to develop the habit of starting and finishing important jobs.

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

DON'T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh

Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.

Como dijo Peter Drucker: «Las suposiciones errantes se encuentran en la raíz de cada fracaso».

The two most important qualities for success in business are patience and foresight, and the man who lacks patience is not cut out for success in competitive enterprise.

practice one virtue for a period of two weeks, then three weeks, then one virtue per month.

Happiness is a condition. It is not something that is achieved by pursuing it directly, but rather comes as a result of our engaging in purposeful activities.

On the other hand, coming into work at the last moment, reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, and socializing with your coworkers may seem fun and enjoyable in the short term but inevitably leads to lack of promotion, underachievement, and frustration in the long term.

Make work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. Set aside thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks. Many highly productive people schedule specific activities in preplanned time slots all day long. These people build their work lives around accomplishing key tasks one at a time.

It is also important to give and receive within a team. Too often, the corporate world forces individuals to strive and show their personal strengths. However, accepting help from others and crediting them for it is not a sign of weakness. It takes a stronger person to take help than not to take help.

Un elemento que has marcado con la A es algo que debes hacer. Es algo importante y tiene consecuencias graves, ya sea que se haga o no.

Como dijo Albert Einstein: "Si no lo puedes explicar de forma sencilla, es que no lo has entendido bien".