Brian Tracy Successful Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.

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.

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.

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.

I believe in the perfect outcome in every area of my life! Expect to be successful! Expect to win!

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

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.

The more accurately you can think about who you are, what you want to accomplish and how to accomplish it, the more successful you will be.

Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.

The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy.

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.

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

I always say there are two things to be successful. The first is decide exactly what you want - set your goals - and then determine how you will achieve them (what skills you will have to learn, what actions will you have to take). And these are totally under your control. These are not dependent upon anyone else.

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.

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you.

Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

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.

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, nothing in the world can stop you from being a big success also.

Successful people are simply those with success habits.