Brian Tracy Quotes

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.

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.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I like to tell people that I have some of the biggest mentors in the world... they just don't know I exist. Dave Ramsey, Sara Blakely, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard - I've learned everything I know from their wisdom through books, podcasts and conferences.

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.

The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.

If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Study the greats and become greater

Experts step outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing.

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

So, you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.

There are no mistakes only opportunities.