“By concentrating single-mindedly on your most important task, you can reduce the time required to complete it by 50 percent or more. It has been estimated that the tendency to start and stop a task—to pick it up, put it down, and come back to it—can increase the time necessary to complete the task by as much as 500 percent. Each time you return to the task, you have to familiarize yourself with where you were when you stopped and what you still have to do. You have to overcome inertia and get yourself going again. You have to develop momentum and get into a productive work rhythm. But when you prepare thoroughly and then begin, refusing to stop or turn aside until the job is done, you develop energy, enthusiasm, and motivation. You get better and better and more productive. You work faster and more effectively.”
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Brian Tracy
“The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”
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Brian Tracy
“Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit.”
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Brian Tracy
“The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven’t yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.”
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Brian Tracy
“human resources are the most valuable assets that the company has.”
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Brian Tracy
“Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current
job, industry, education, experience or interests.”
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Brian Tracy
“The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.”
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Brian Tracy
“Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.”
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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.”
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Brian Tracy
“You can’t help the poor by becoming one of them.”
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Brian Tracy
“All change is from the inner to the outer. All change begins in the self-concept. You must become the person you want to be on the inside before you see the appearance of this person on the outside.”
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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”
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Brian Tracy
“Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.”
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Brian Tracy
“There's only one direction you can coast.”
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Brian Tracy