Brian Tracy

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

You can make just about anything of your life-anything you will believe or will visualize, anything you will pray for and work for. Look deeply into your mind. Amazing wonders are there. Whatever the situation may be, you can improve it.

Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term.

Surround your mind with healthy thoughts, thoughts of faith, and not fear, and you will produce faith results instead of fear results.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

I’m wary of what goal I set, because then I’ll have to accomplish it.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember – the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

The most important thing is to know that you can do it.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.