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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

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?”

“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”

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

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“The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.”

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Book:The Gift of Self-Confidence

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.”

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Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.”

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Book:Effective Leadership

Source: Effective Leadership

“If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.”

“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”

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

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“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.”

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“All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves”

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“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.”

“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”

“Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.”

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“Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.”

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“Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.”

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“Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."”

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“The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.”

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“The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person”

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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.”

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“You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.”

“People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.”

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“The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.”

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Book:Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

“The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.”

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“Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.”

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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.”

“One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.”

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“The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it . . . soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.”

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“If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.”

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“I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it at all.”

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“Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.”

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Book:Mastering Your Time

Source: Mastering Your Time

“The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.”

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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

“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”

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“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.”

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“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

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Book:Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

Source: Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

“In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.”

Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

“The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.”

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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

“Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.”

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“The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.”

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Book:The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The 21 Success Secrets of Self-made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.”