Brian Tracy Quotes

If you want to remain the best, you have to keep on doing what you are good at.

I want to try and get better in every facet of the game.

Inches make champions.

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

Never settle for average.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

Don't think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better

Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.