Top 500 Brian Tracy Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.”

— Brian Tracy

452. “Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it!”

— Brian Tracy

453. “You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.”

— Brian Tracy

454. “The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.”

— Brian Tracy

455. “Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

457. “The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.”

— Brian Tracy

458. “Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.”

— Brian Tracy

459. “The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don’t want.”

— Brian Tracy

460. “When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You’re competing with only 20% of the population.”

— Brian Tracy

461. “You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all.”

— Brian Tracy

462. “Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.”

— Brian Tracy

463. “If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance.”

— Brian Tracy

464. “Why haven’t you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?”

— Brian Tracy

465. “Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.”

— Brian Tracy

466. “Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

468. “Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.”

— Brian Tracy

469. “Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.”

— Brian Tracy

470. “Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.”

— Brian Tracy

471. “What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?”

— Brian Tracy

472. “The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you’ll get back from the most unexpected sources.”

— Brian Tracy

473. “When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.”

— Brian Tracy

474. “The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.”

— Brian Tracy

475. “Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”

— Brian Tracy

476. “Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.”

— Brian Tracy

477. “Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.”

— Brian Tracy

478. “Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.”

— Brian Tracy

479. “Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one.”

— Brian Tracy

480. “Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.”

— Brian Tracy

481. “No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.”

— Brian Tracy

482. “You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

483. “It’s astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.”

— Brian Tracy

484. “Don’t be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it’s the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.”

— Brian Tracy

485. “If you like a person you say ‘let’s go into business together.’ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.”

— Brian Tracy

486. “Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.”

— Brian Tracy

487. “Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.”

— Brian Tracy

488. “The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

490. “Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.”

— Brian Tracy

491. “If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.”

— Brian Tracy

492. “Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.”

— Brian Tracy

493. “Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up.”

— Brian Tracy

494. “Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

496. “There is nobody like him in the world. There is – and always will be – one Jim Rohn.”

— Brian Tracy

497. “Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.”

— Brian Tracy

498. “Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness.”

— Brian Tracy

499. “The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.”

— Brian Tracy

500. “The best words for resolving a disagreement are, “I could be wrong; I often am.” It’s true.”

— Brian Tracy