Brian Tracy Quotes

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Competition can only make you as an individual better and let you perform better, it can only be a positive thing.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

John Wooden would say never mistake activity for achievement. Sometimes we think we're really doing well on a given day. But 'What did you accomplish?' is the question that we should really be asking not 'What did we do?'

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.