Brian Tracy Quotes

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

It may sound like showing off, but I am good in communications and in creating harmony.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south a little bit, it's like, 'You wanna play ping-pong or foosball?' Or, 'You wanna go grab somethin' to eat?' And then you just like talk to them and relax them and get them comfortable and get yourself comfortable.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.