Jim Quotes

What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.

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.

Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.

Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

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

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.

I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.

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

If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.

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.

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

Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Moving ahead, so life won’t pass me by.

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.

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

There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.

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

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

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.

Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

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

I only dated one Asian girl, but she was very Asian. She was a panda.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

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

Business is about to pick up here!

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.

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!

One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave.

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.