From hard starts to success
Tracy has often described starting out with few advantages and working many jobs before building his career, an experience that shaped his lifelong focus on effort and persistence over natural talent.
A career teaching success
Over several decades, Tracy has written more than 80 books and delivered talks to millions of people, focusing on goal-setting, self-discipline, and the habits that help people follow through on what they start.
The persistence message
A theme he returns to again and again is that most people give up just before they would have succeeded — and that the willingness to keep going through difficulty is often what separates those who break through from those who don't.

