Brian Tracy Quotes

I am always on the lookout for roles which will help me better myself.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

I always wanted to do good work, the best that I was able to, to really discover myself, getting better with each role, and find newer ways to do the same thing.

I've always been about learning. No matter how long I've been in the business or where I've been in a company, I've always wanted to continue to learn.

If you're going to be a professional you continue to grow.

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

Build your skills, not your resume.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

You have to learn and keep learning.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.