Brian Tracy Quotes

If you just go out and try to make money by starting a business, you're going to come up with something that's just like what everyone else has done. But if you look at the world and see opportunities that can be taken more seriously, then you come up with a great idea.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

When you have a good idea, the money flows.

Turning nothing into a business is cool.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

So many entrepreneurs approach me and say, 'I want to start the next big thing,' and I say, 'Well, what are you solving?' And oftentimes they say, 'Oh, I'm not sure. I want to start something big.' You can never start something big without solving something small, right?

The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

When I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the freedom in America for people to do that and to make a good living for themselves and their families. And I don't think we should confuse what we have to do every so often in America, which is save capitalism from itself.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.