Jim Rohn Quotes

Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.

We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

What you don't know will hurt you.

Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change themselves.

When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.

The thing that will make the biggest difference to your business, your bank account, your health and your relationships in the next 12 months is your philosophy

What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.

Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

Take advice, but don't take orders.