<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/brian-tracy.jpg" width="75" height="100" alt="Brian Tracy - Author and Speaker on success topics" class="alignleft size-medium" /><strong>Use the 80/20 Rule</strong> &#8211; The 80/20 rule is as applicable to individual salespeople as it is to a large sales force. Fully eighty percent of your success as a salesperson will be determined by your attitude and only twenty percent by your aptitude. Some people feel that attitude is ninety percent of success in all human endeavors involving other people, but we can quite comfortably use eighty percent as a figure for the purposes of this article.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2019/07/attitude-versus-aptitude-80-20-rule-brian-tracy/" title="Permanent Link: Attitude Versus Aptitude by Brian Tracy" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3292,"date":"2019-07-04T22:12:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2023-01-14T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:59:38","slug":"attitude-versus-aptitude-80-20-rule-brian-tracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/07\/attitude-versus-aptitude-80-20-rule-brian-tracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude Versus Aptitude by Brian Tracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/brian-tracy.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Brian Tracy - Author and Speaker on success topics\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><strong>Use the 80\/20 Rule<\/strong> &#8211; The 80\/20 rule is as applicable to individual salespeople as it is to a large sales force. Fully eighty percent of your success as a salesperson will be determined by your attitude and only twenty percent by your aptitude. Some people feel that attitude is ninety percent of success in all human endeavors involving other people, but we can quite comfortably use eighty percent as a figure for the purposes of this article.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/07\/attitude-versus-aptitude-80-20-rule-brian-tracy\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Attitude Versus Aptitude by Brian Tracy\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}