Brian Tracy

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.

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.

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.

IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

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

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.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

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.

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

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