“You become on the outside what you believe about yourself on the inside.” — Brian Tracy

For more than three decades, Brian Tracy has encouraged millions of people to set goals and achieve success through his best-selling books and development programs. Born in Canada to Irish parents, Brian grew up poor, dropped out of high school and labored in factories, ships and farms until he became a salesman and experienced the first turning point that changed his life. In this episode, Brian Buffini interviews his mentor, Brian Tracy. Brian Tracy shares how a high school dropout became one of the most influential personal development speakers in the world and the impact that three turning points had to set him on the path to success. You’ll learn the three things that have the biggest impact on success, what the greatest obstacle to success is, and the one task you can do to dramatically change your future. This is part one of a two-part episode that is sure to provide the surge of motivation you need to stay on the path to lasting success.

Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:

“Selling isn’t a sales business, it’s a rejection business.” — Brian Tracy

“In your life, you have a series of turning points and it makes you who you are today.” — Brian Tracy

“Read, listen, attend seminars and you’ll save yourself decades of hard work reaching the same income level.” — Brian Tracy

“If you don’t accept responsibility, you blame every single problem in your life on someone or something else. When you blame you give up control.” — Brian Tracy

“The greatest obstacle to success is negativity toward yourself and toward others.” –Brian Tracy

“You’re responsible for your own life.” — Brian Tracy

“Never worry about things you cannot change in life. You cannot change a past event so one of the most important things in life is to say ‘this too shall pass.’” — Brian Tracy

“The way to influence the future magnificently is to sit down with a piece of paper and write down what you want to accomplish in the weeks and months ahead and then work on it every day.” — Brian Tracy

“There’s only one thing in life that you can control and that is your own thinking.” — Brian Tracy

“You become on the outside what you believe about yourself on the inside.” — Brian Tracy

“If you invest in yourself, your belief system changes.” –Brian Tracy

“If you don’t invest in yourself, you’ve unconsciously decided that you personally have no future.” — Brian Tracy

“Once we invest in ourselves as a stock, we have total control over that stock.” — Brian Tracy

Mentioned in the episode:

Brian Tracy’s sales programs:

The Psychology of Achievement The Psychology of Selling The Success Principles by Jack Canfield The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires

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