Brian Tracy - People Quotes

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

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The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

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Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations.
Your expectations determine your attitude.
Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people.
And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you.

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The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

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Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.

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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.

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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.

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The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

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There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

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Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.

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The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.

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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

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The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.

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One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

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Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

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Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

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You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.

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The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

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Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

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The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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