Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
~ Brian Tracy
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
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.
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well-meaning.
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.
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
To earn more, you must learn more.
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
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 key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
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.
The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all......58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates......43.6% of American adults read below the 7th grade level... they are functionally illiterate... fully 50% of high school graduates cannot read their graduation diplomas, nor fill out an application form for a job at McDonald’s...
...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.
Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.
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.
You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.
You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.
Whatever you believe, with feeling,becomes your reality.
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.
If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
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 greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
