Life & Wisdom Quote by Brian Tracy

Self-help’s most seductive move is to dress strategy up as virtue, and Brian Tracy does it cleanly here. The line reads like moral guidance, but it’s engineered as a business tactic: generosity framed as a compounding asset. “Give away credit” sounds saintly until you hear the implied ROI humming underneath it. Credit is currency in offices and entrepreneurial circles, and Tracy’s promise is that if you spend it publicly you’ll earn influence privately.

The subtext is social mechanics, not mysticism. People remember who made them look good; reputations travel through other people’s mouths. By pushing credit outward, you position yourself as secure, high-status, and nonthreatening - exactly the kind of person others want in their coalition. Help becomes a signaling device: I’m competent enough to be useful, connected enough to be worth reciprocating, confident enough not to hoard recognition.

It’s also a tidy reframing of power. Tracy doesn’t ask you to abandon ambition; he asks you to launder ambition through service. That’s why the repetition works: “The more...the more...” turns ethics into a feedback loop, like a formula you can run. The risk, of course, is that transactional generosity curdles fast. If your kindness arrives with an invoice, people sense it.

Context matters: this is late-20th-century motivational literature speaking to sales floors, managers, and strivers navigating networks where collaboration is mandatory and credit is scarce. Tracy sells an appealing compromise: you can be generous and still win. The quote’s real pitch is that altruism is not the opposite of self-interest - it’s a smarter version of it.