Jim Rohn Quotes

Find a way to serve the many.

We get paid for bring value to the market place. The key is to study the market place.


If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

When you know what you want, and and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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.

To solve any problem, here are the three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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 are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

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 they have departed.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

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.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

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.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

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.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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.

The book you don't read won't help.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.