Brian Tracy Quotes

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Make certain decisions only once.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

I pretty much know that directing means that you have to answer about a thousand questions every day and you have to answer them quick.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.