Brian Tracy Port Quotations

The fastest way to improve your relationships is to make others feel important in every way possible.

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

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.

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

The important thing is the 80/20 rule: 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This means that if you're doing ten tasks, two are going to be vastly more important than others.

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

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.

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

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.

This powerful, practical book, based on years of proven and profi table experience, shows you how to leverage your special talents to maximize the opportunities surrounding you. The Compound Effect is a treasure chest of ideas for achieving greater success than you ever thought possible!

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

Satisfy the deep subconscious needs of your customers - to feel important, to feel valued, respected and worthwhile

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

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.

Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!

Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

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.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself.

Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

Self-disciplin e is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline , the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline , a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.

When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going.