Brian Tracy

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Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.
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Collection: Determination
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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.
- Brian Tracy
Collection: Self Confidence
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Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.
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Collection: Success
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The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
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Collection: Jobs
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We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.
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Collection: Block
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Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.
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Collection: Communication
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One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
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Collection: Commitment
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If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.
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Collection: Success
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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
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Collection: Exercise
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Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.
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Collection: Ideas
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Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind.
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Collection: Mind
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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
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Collection: Inspirational
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Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.
- Brian Tracy
Collection: Work
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
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Collection: Destiny
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Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.
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Collection: Self
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By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person.
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Collection: Optimistic
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Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
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Collection: Commitment
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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Collection: Care
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If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.
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Collection: Ifs
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Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'
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Collection: Asking
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Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.
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Collection: Inspirational
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When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.
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Collection: Inspirational
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The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.
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Collection: Track
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Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.
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Collection: Ideas
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Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
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Collection: Lying
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Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
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Collection: Leadership
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Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
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Collection: Confidence
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The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.
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Collection: Laughing
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Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!
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Collection: Writing
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Success comes in cans, not can'ts.
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Collection: Success
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You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.
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Collection: Regret
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The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.
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Collection: Positive Thinking
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If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.
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Collection: Starting Over
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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Collection: Ambition
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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Collection: Confidence
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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
Collection: Book
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Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.
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Collection: Cancer
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Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.
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Collection: Acceptance
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You can always tell your true values by looking at your behavior -- especially under pressure.
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Collection: Pressure
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I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.
- Brian Tracy
Collection: Believe
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Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.
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Collection: Clever
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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Collection: Goal
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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!
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Collection: Want
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Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.
- Brian Tracy
Collection: Influence
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Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).
- Brian Tracy
Collection: Appreciation
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The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.
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Collection: Karma
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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
Collection: Cheer