Jim Rohn Quotes

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.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

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

The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills

Accuracy builds credibility.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

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

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.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

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.

A life worth living is a life worth recording.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

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!

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

How long should you try? Until.

The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

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.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

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.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

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 challenge wish for more wisdom

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

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.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.