Brian Tracy Quotes - Page 2

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.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

The greatest problem of human life is fear. It is fear that robs us ofhappiness. It is fear that causes us to settle for far less than we arecapable of. It is fear that is the root cause of negative emotions,unhappiness and problems in human relationships.

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product or service that people will pay for at a price sufficiently above your costs, ideally three or four or five times your cost, thereby giving you a profit that enables you to buy and to offer more products and services.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.