Jim Rohn Quotes
We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time.
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed.
Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.
Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
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.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.
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.
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can´t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing.
All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, "This is the only area where I let down." Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.
Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for fewer challenges; wish for more wisdom.
Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word "no" mean to a child? Almost nothing.
You must get good at one of two things: sowing in the spring or begging in the fall.
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your money a dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures. You can't buy much of value a dollar at a time.
Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need.
Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.
It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.
Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something.
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.
Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.
Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: is that okay?
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