Brian Tracy Quotes

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral.

The bully pulpit is not an open microphone. You have to target it very carefully.

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

The confidence and charisma it takes to stand up in front of a group of children absolutely terrifies me.

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.