Jim Quotes

You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!

My best vacation is your worst nightmare.

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

Now don't get me wrong, I love animals, but I like eatin' 'em more... fun to pet, better to chew.

If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

In addition, it is very likely that United States action in Iraq caused Iran to open its nuclear facilities for international inspection and suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

If you say something and back it up with your actions, you will provide the 'proof' for people who are listening to you, and they will much more willingly follow your lead.

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.

Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

Hulk Hogan, you may be a household word, but so is garbage, and it stinks when it gets old too.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

Blood is the rose of mysterious union.

Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.