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Brian Tracy (born January 5, 1944) is a Canadian-American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and bestselling author. Rising from humble beginnings as a salesman, he built a global training empire through Brian Tracy International. He has authored over 70 books including the famous "Eat That Frog!" and has trained millions of professionals worldwide in sales, time management, and personal development. His practical strategies for business success have made him one of the most influential figures in the personal growth industry.

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Famous Brian Tracy Quotes

“You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.”

Use Ability Quality Degrees Achievement Performances Increase Quantity Efficiency

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“Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.”

Ability Skills Tasks Complexes Critical Advancement

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“Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.”

Self Belief Ability Discipline Increase Self Discipline Belief In Yourself

Book:The Gift of Self-Confidence

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.”

Thinking Said Ability Decision Lessons Reflection Gains Combination Plus More Time Good Decision

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“The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.”

Opportunity Ability Enemy Doubt Overcoming Rejection Triggers Road To Success Fear Of Failure

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.”

Important Goal Ability Achieve Skills Achieving Goals

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“Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.”

Ability Influence Communicate Accomplish Objectives Indispensable Goals And Objectives

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“Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.”

People Leadership Ability Achievement Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Extraordinary Achievement

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“To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.”

Thinking Self Ability Levels Talent Acceptance Unique Increase Self Acceptance Think Of You Talents And Abilities Unique Talents

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“Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.”

Inspirational Long Made Character Ability Emotion Resolution Follow Through

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“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.”

Wells Sometimes Motivational Ability Decision Ordinary Determination Difficulty Decision Making Assets

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“Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.”

Inspirational Motivational Success Goal Ability Clear Hard Work Discipline Factors Guarantees Self Discipline Work Ethic Clear Goals

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“Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.”

Facts Faces Belief Ability Habit Succeed Adversity Perseverance Disappointment Persistence Persist Facing Adversity Belief In Yourself Ability To Succeed

Book:Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success

Source: Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success

“When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.”

Inspirational Feels Helping Ability Confidence Self Confidence Maximum Stretching Systematic Stretching Yourself

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“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”

“Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.”

Inspirational Inspiration Time Ability Resources Assets Time Management Earning

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“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.”

People Giving Success Three Simple Ability Business Pay Successful Five Four Products Cost Offers Essence Profit Successful Business

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“Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.”

“Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.”

Giving Success Ability Plans Succeed Giving Up Persistence Never Ever Give Up Ability To Succeed

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“Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.”

Goal Ability Plans Masters Skills Accomplishment Setting Goals

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“Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.”

Way Wisdom Today Values Ability Decision Pay Knowledge Skills Customers Dependent Earning Skills And Knowledge

Book:Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

Source: Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

“With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.”

“Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.”

Important Ability Attitude Personality

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“The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.”

Ifs Want Life Real Enough Motivational Desire Ability Levels Achieve Limits Achievement Limitation

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“Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.”

Values Work Ability Pay Quality Perception Performances Excellence Rewards Average Determined Excellent Earning Unemployment Excellent Performance

Book:Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

Source: Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

“Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.”

Important Self Ability Discipline Self Discipline Great Times

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“Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.”

Important Ability One Thing Essentials Important Things Resolution New Year Prerequisites New Years Resolution

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“The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.”

Giving Wells Ability Study Areas Well Being Better Life

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“Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.”

Moving Opportunity Leadership Ability Entrepreneurial

Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.”

Order Ability Results Pay Skills Assets Earning

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“When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.”

Believe Ability Succeed Believe In Yourself Believe In You Ability To Succeed

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“You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment”

Ability Levels Right Now Accomplishment Exceed

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“You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.”

Opportunity Goal Ability Achieve Talent Unique Combination Talents And Abilities

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“Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.”

Wells Important Simple Ability Careers Keys Achievement Tasks Ceo Life Happiness Great Success Simple Truths

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“Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.”

People Way Want Enjoy Ability Admire Live Your Life

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“When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.”

Way Want Enough Ability Overcoming Obstacles Want Something

Book:The Gift of Self-Confidence

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.”

Wells Ability Determine Factors Happiness And Success

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“The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.”

Firsts Ability Quality Sight Endure Guarantees Willingness

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“Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.”

Mind Ideas Energy Goal Ability Masters Skills Flow Currents Release Target Setting Goals Arrows Attainment Positive Mind

Book:Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

Source: Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want-- Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible

“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.”

Wells Important Done Moments Ability Quality Skills Tasks Impact Priorities Select Get It Done

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.”

Ability Consequence Mark Superiors Thinker

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

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Born: January 5, 1944
Known for: Entrepreneur
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