Quotes from Brian Tracy

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

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

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

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

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

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

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

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.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, 'try harder.' And if that doesn't work, try harder still!

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up!

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.