“If you want to be successful faster, you must double your rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.”
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Brian Tracy
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
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Brian Tracy
“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.”
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Brian Tracy
“The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.”
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Brian Tracy
“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
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Brian Tracy
“The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't 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...”
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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.”
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Brian Tracy
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.”
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Brian Tracy
“Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.”
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Brian Tracy
“Practice "zero-based thinking" in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, "If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?" If it is something you would not start again today, knowing what you now know, it is a prime candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination.”
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Brian Tracy
“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
“A goal, however, is something distinctly different from a wish. It is clear, written, and specific. It can be quickly and easily described to another person. You can measure it, and you know when you have achieved it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
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Brian Tracy
