Jim Rohn Quotes
Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’
Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
The more you know the less you need to say.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention
Of course kids should pay taxes. Tell little Johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud, he’s got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.
Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
On the way to work, concentrate on the way – not the work.
It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.
We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The amount you give isn’t important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.
Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.
Labour gives birth to ideas.
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.
One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.
Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
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Jim Rohn Quotes on Work
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Health
Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Happiness
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Success
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.
Jim Rohn Quotes about Dreams
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills
Your ability will grow to match your dreams.
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Money
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it’s a matter of inspiration.
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Love
Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 – heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That’s a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Leadership
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Goals
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, ‘Me, too!’ versus ‘So what?’
Goals are like a magnet – they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.
Jim Rohn Quotes about Time
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That’s why they make those second grade chairs so small.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Network Marketing
Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It’s taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Education
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn Quotes about Change
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn Quote You are not a Tree
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim Rohn Quotes about Friends
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Jim Rohn Quotes about Life
Learn how to say no. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Book
The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read.
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn’t matter
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!
Jim Rohn Quotes on Reading
Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He’s picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn’t have a favorite place to feed his mind!
To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you’re not
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn Quotes Self Education
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn Quotes for Things to Change
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
Jim Rohn Quote But not You
Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Giving
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
Labour gives birth to ideas.
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
Jim Rohn Quotes Not Much
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Personal Development
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
Jim Rohn Quotes Take Care of Me
I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.
Jim Rohn Quotes on Discipline
Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
