Brian Tracy Quotes

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.