4/30/2009

Quotes by Famous People - Brian Tracy

"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."
Brian Tracy

"The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction."
Brian Tracy

"You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind."
Brian Tracy

"With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about."
Brian Tracy

"Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles."
Brian Tracy

"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited."
Brian Tracy

"The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit."
Brian Tracy

"The key to success is to develop a winning edge."
Brian Tracy

"The more you like yourself, the better you perform in everything that you do."
Brian Tracy

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
Brian Tracy

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings."
Brian Tracy

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."
Brian Tracy

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."
Brian Tracy

"The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you." "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."
Brian Tracy

"Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines."
Brian Tracy

"You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts."
Brian Tracy

"You can only have as much love for yourself as you can express to others."
Brian Tracy

"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it."
Brian Tracy

"Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success."
Brian Tracy

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."
Brian Tracy

"Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call."
Brian Tracy

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."
Brian Tracy

"Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself."
Brian Tracy

"Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top 10 percent in your field. The payoff is incredible!"
Brian Tracy

"Network continually -- 85 percent of all jobs are filled through contacts and personal references."
Brian Tracy

"Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests."
Brian Tracy

"Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!"
Brian Tracy

"Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed."
Brian Tracy

"Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood."
Brian Tracy

"Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence."
Brian Tracy

"You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough;"
Brian Tracy

"Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization."
Brian Tracy

"Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?"
Brian Tracy

Business Quotes by Self Help Author Brian Tracy

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
Brian Tracy

"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."
Brian Tracy

"Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, “what is the most valuable use of my time right now?”
Brian Tracy

"A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights."
Brian Tracy

"Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed."
Brian Tracy

"A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power."
Brian Tracy

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."
Brian Tracy

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
Brian Tracy

"I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself."
Brian Tracy

"The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services."
Brian Tracy

"One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development."
Brian Tracy

"Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives."
Brian Tracy

"Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay."
Brian Tracy

"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

"The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do."
Brian Tracy


"You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace."
Brian Tracy

"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."
Brian Tracy

"Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much."
Brian Tracy

"Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive."
Brian Tracy

"One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential."
Brian Tracy

"Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people."
Brian Tracy

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4/28/2009

Motivational Quotes # 1

“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.”
Bo Bennett

“How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.”
Martin Luther (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
James Dean (American motion picture actor, symbol of rebellion, 1931-1955)

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
Brian Littrell

“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Mark Victor Hansen

“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.”
Adlin Sinclair (British born Businessman, motivational speaker and Humanitarian, )

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

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