Latest Brian Tracy Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Important, Firsts, Lists

• It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.

  Brian Tracy

  Writing, Simple, Organization

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.

  Brian Tracy

  Tools, Checklists, Productivity

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

  Brian Tracy

  Kitchen, Life Is, Forget

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.

  Brian Tracy

  Exercise, Different, Tasks

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Email, Watches

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Successful, Exercise

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Interesting, Three

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done.

  Brian Tracy

  Long, Secret, Tasks

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

  Brian Tracy

  Morning, Tired, Phones

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Mean, Two, Important

  Source: www.webpagefx.com

• The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be struggling to get payments. It has to be properly organized. You can only beat that horse of good and easy money so many times before it eventually dies.

  Brian Tracy

  Running, Horse, Struggle

• Network marketing itself is always one-on-one. It's also called relationship marketing. You can't recruit en masse through thousands of e-mails.

  Brian Tracy

  Marketing, Mail, Recruit

• The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

  Brian Tracy

  Hype, Numbers, People

• Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.

  Brian Tracy

  Doors, People, Faces

• It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Economy, Selling

• The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

  Brian Tracy

  Law, People, Contact

  "Secrets of Success from Business Coach Brian Tracy". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 07, 2015.

• Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

  Brian Tracy

  Want, Increase, Results

  "Secrets of Success from Business Coach Brian Tracy". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 07, 2015.

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

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, People, Important

• Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

  Brian Tracy

  Clever, Average, People

• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Country, Successful, Opportunity

• All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!

  Brian Tracy

  Want, Pay, Needs

  Source: productivemag.com

• The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

  Brian Tracy

  Book, Writing, Dinner

  Source: productivemag.com

• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Home, Successful, Careers

  Source: productivemag.com

• 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."

  Brian Tracy

  Hard Work, Successful, Years

  Source: productivemag.com