Brian Tracy Quotes
25 quotes from Brian Tracy on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.
On investing
Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.
On entrepreneurship
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.
They work in business too.
A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self- confidence.
Leaders are more concerned with winning than with not losing. They are more concerned with what's right than with who's right.
Time management is a vehicle to take you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.
A single person who lacks commitment can be a major source of problems in your organization.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
On motivation
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.
An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses.
Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.
Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.
To earn more, you must learn more.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality.
You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.