“You are what you think you are. Your self-concept determines your performance.”
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Brian Tracy
“If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.”
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Brian Tracy
“Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
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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
“When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.”
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Brian Tracy
“In fact, the habit of setting and achieving ever-larger goals is absolutely indispensable to the development of ever-higher levels of self-confidence and personal power.”
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Brian Tracy
“The Law of Forced Efficiency says, “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things.”
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Brian Tracy
“your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”
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Brian Tracy
“The fact is that your productivity begins to decline after eight or nine hours of work. For this reason, working long hours into the night, although it is sometimes necessary, means that you are usually producing less and less in more and more time. The more tired you become, the worse the quality of your work will be and the more mistakes you will make. At a certain point, you can reach “the wall” and simply be unable to continue, like a battery that is run down.”
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Brian Tracy
“Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution.”
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Brian Tracy
“No matter how you really feel at the moment or what is happening in your life, resolve to remain cheerful and upbeat. As Viktor Frankl wrote in his bestselling book Man’s Search for Meaning, “The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one’s attitude in any given set of cricumstances.”
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Brian Tracy
“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.”
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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
“Your future largely depends on what you learn and practice from this moment onward.”
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Brian Tracy
