Quotes by Brian Tracy

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

To earn more, you must learn more.

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.

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.

The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

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.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide whats right before you decide whats possible.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks of everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans dont read at all......58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates......43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level... they are functionally illiterate... fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a job at McDonald’s...

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.