"Here is the formula: Start each day with a list of tasks that you need to complete. Organize the tasks from the most important to the least important. Start work on your most important task, and discipline yourself to work on it nonstop until it is complete."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Every minute that you spend planning your work will save you at least 10 minutes in getting your work done. It takes only 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan your entire day. But you will get back two hours of productive time, 120 minutes, just by planning your work before you begin."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Everything that happens to you or for you in your life happens for specific causes, which lead to the effects that make up your life as it is today. If you want to change the effects, you must change the causes. If you want to change what you are getting out, you must change what you are putting in."

— Brian Tracy, Personal Success

“The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image…We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.”

- Brian Tracy

"Each evening, compose a list of things you will do the next day. This prepares you for a productive morning and a successful day."

— Brian Tracy, Master Your Time, Master Your Life

"Do fewer things. You will never get caught up. You will never be able to do everything on your list. To get control of your life you must stop doing an enormous number of small things. Do more important things. Do the top three tasks that you have identified, and nothing else, until you have no more of those major tasks to do. Do your most important tasks more of the time, preferably all day long. The more time you spend doing the most important things, the more productive you will be on the outside and the happier you will feel on the inside."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about. You refuse, from this moment forward, to criticize others for any reason. You refuse to complain about your situation or about what has happened in the past. You eliminate all your if-onlys and what-ifs and focus instead on what you really want and where you are going."

— Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"A goal without a plan is just a wish. A plan without action is just a dream."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"Fully 85 percent of your success and advancement is going to be determined by your attitude."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"Everything you have in your life today you have attracted to yourself by the person you are, by the way you think. You can change your life because you can change the person you are. You can change the thoughts that you think."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"Each time you start and complete a task, of any size, you get a burst of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. You feel better about yourself. You feel happier. Your brain releases endorphins, nature’s ‘happy drug,’ and you feel more creative, more calm, more confident, and more personable toward others."

- Brian Tracy, Master Your Time, Master Your Life

"Do something every day on your most important goal. Do something seven days a week, thirty days a month. Never let a day go by where you don’t do something that moves you at least one step forward toward something that is important to you."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"Everything you do on a day-to-day basis, every decision you make, every action you take or fail to take, accumulates over time and ultimately manifests in your success, or lack thereof."

- Brian Tracy, Personal Success

"You will never be able to do everything on your list. To get control of your life you must stop doing an enormous number of small things. Do your most important tasks more of the time, preferably all day long. The more time you spend doing the most important things, the more productive you will be on the outside and the happier you will feel on the inside."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Discipline yourself to do only those tasks that enrich and enhance your life and work and that give you a feeling of forward motion toward achieving the things you want and becoming the kind of person you want to be."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Clarity is probably 95 percent of success."

- Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Do something every day that moves you toward your most important goal."

- Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life."

- Brian Tracy, Focal Point

"Daily reading is the key to unlocking a world of possibilities, enhancing your skills, and achieving continuous personal and professional development."

- Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!