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
Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
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.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
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.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
