Jim Rohn Quotes

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

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

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

Learn to express, not impress.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

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.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

What you become directly influences what you get.

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy.

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.