f there were a
Fantasy Speaker
League, you’d defi-
nitely want Brian
Tracy’s stats on your
roster. Over the course of 38 years, he
has consulted for more than 10,000
companies, and addressed more than 5
million people in 58 countries around
the world. (He’s traveled to 98.) As a
keynote speaker and seminar leader, he
presents between 150 to 200 times a
year — reaching 250,000 people in the
process. Don’t forget writing nearly 50
books. And speaking four languages.
“I’d have to sit down with a globe to
remember every place I’ve been,” Tracy
says. “I started speaking in 1994 to large
audiences in Germany, and from there,
expanded to virtually every European
country. Same thing with Asia, minus
Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam, though
I’ve traveled there.”
Tracy confesses that he’s had too
many memorable experiences abroad
to choose just one, but says the deci-
sion to learn German was among the
most influential. “Within about four
years or so, I addressed two audi-
ences in the biggest exhibition hall in
Germany in Frankfurt, 8,000 one day
from one corporation, and 10,000 the
next day for another,” Tracy says. “I
always remember that, because I’d set
a goal to speak more in Europe and
especially Germany, and there I was,
four years later, addressing two big
audiences back-to-back on a Saturday
and Sunday.”
Although Tracy also speaks French
and Spanish, he hasn’t had the oppor-
tunity to address an audience in either.
“The French never book speakers,” he
says with a laugh, “and the Spanish can
never seem to pay for them.”
