Quotes from Brian Tracy

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.

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

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

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

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.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.

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

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

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?'

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.