Brian Tracy

“If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To earn more, you must learn more.”

“There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.”

“You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.”

“Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!”

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”

“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.”

“Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.”

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

“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.”

“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

“Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.”

“People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.”

“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.”

“Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”

“The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.”