Success Quotes
Getting up earlier, exercising each morning before you start out, listening to audio programs in your car, going to bed at a certain hour, planning every day in advance, starting with your most important tasks each day, or completing your tasks before you start something else. There are habits of medium complexity that can be quite easily developed in 14 to 21 days through practice and repetition. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The most important habit you can develop for success, achievement and happiness is the habit of self-discipline. Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. [2004] - Brian Tracy
Perhaps the most helpful mental habit you can develop is the habit of optimism. [2004] - Brian Tracy
20 percent of the things that you do will account for 80 percent of your results. [2004] - Brian Tracy
Usually, only about five to seven skills, or key result areas, determine most of the success in any field of endeavor. Your first job is to identify these key skills and write them down. [2004] - Brian Tracy
It requires about five to seven years of hard work for you to move to the top of your field. There are no short cuts. [2004] - Brian Tracy
Arise early each morning and read for 30 to 60 minutes in your field. Attend every seminar and course you possibly can. Make it a habit to seek out and attend at least four seminar programs per year in your field. Listen to audio programs in your car and as you walk or exercise. [2004] - Brian Tracy
Make it a habit to associate only with the kind of people that you like, admire, respect, and want to be like. [2004] - Brian Tracy
Your "reference group" would determine as much as 95 percent of your success or failure in life. These can be members of your family; your coworkers; or members of your political party, church, or social organizations. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The critical difference between success and failure was contained in the habit of taking the initiative. Managers and executives who were on the fast track were constantly moving out of their comfort zone and taking the initiative to try new things in new areas. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The habit of frugality: Most self-made millionaires do not buy new cars. They wait until a good quality car is about two years old before they buy it. They buy the car and then drive it for five or ten years before replacing it. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The habit of regular saving and investment from an early age: Save at least 10 percent of your income, off the top, before any other expenditure, for the entirety of your working life. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The Law of Sowing and Reaping: Whatsoever you sow, that also shall you reap. Whatever you put in, or do for others, will eventually come back to you. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The Law of the Excluded Alternative: Doing one thing means not doing something else. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The more similar tasks you do, one after the other, the faster you will complete each subsequent task, and at the same or higher level of quality. [2004] - Brian Tracy
Excellent people have three primary virtues: prudence, justice, and benevolence, in that order. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The more you give of yourself to others without expectation of return, the more good things there are that will come back to you from the most unexpected sources. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The habit of faith requires that you simply believe that there is a higher power in the universe and that this power wants the very best for you. [2004] - Brian Tracy
The final habit for you to develop in becoming a truly excellent person is the habit of practicing an "attitude of gratitude" in every part of your life. Virtually every successful person I have met attributes their success to other people, to their spouses, their children, their parents, their co-workers, their friends, associates, and customers. [2004] - Brian Tracy
Top people are usually willing to help other people who want to succeed. [2004] - Brian Tracy