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A Tribute to Jim Rohn
(September 17, 1930 - December 5, 2009)
Jim Rohn was considered the greatest motivational speaker in the world. He was a millionaire, entrepreneur and businessman who was devoted to helping others achieve all they are capable of in life and business. I was introduced to Jim Rohn, author of more than 17 books, audio and video programs some seven years ago. I spent countless hours on my long journeys to and from work listening to and being inspired by many of his wonderfully inspirational recordings.
Jim has helped to motivate and train a generation of personal development trainers and hundreds of executives from top corporations worldwide.
If you do not know Jim Rohn, it’s not too late. I offer you an introduction by way of a collection of 80 of Jim Rohn quotes below. To me Jim is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Read, Reflect, Rejoice…
- A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. - Jim Rohn
- Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. - Jim Rohn
- Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn
- Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. - Jim Rohn
- Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. - Jim Rohn
- Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. - Jim Rohn
- Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace. - Jim Rohn
- Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn
- Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. - Jim Rohn
- Effective communicationis 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. - Jim Rohn
- Either you run the day or the day runs you. - Jim Rohn
- Failureis not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. - Jim Rohn
- For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. - Jim Rohn
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
- Givewhatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. - Jim Rohn
- Givingis better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. - Jim Rohn
- Happinessis not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Jim Rohn
- Ideascan be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. - Jim Rohn
- 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. - Jim Rohn
- If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn
- If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. - Jim Rohn
- If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. - Jim Rohn
- If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. - Jim Rohn
- It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. - Jim Rohn
- It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. - Jim Rohn
- Labourgives birth to ideas. - Jim Rohn
- Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. - Jim Rohn
- Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. - Jim Rohn
- Make measurable progress in reasonable time. - Jim Rohn
- Maturityis the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. - Jim Rohn
- Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book. - Jim Rohn
- Moneyis usually attracted, not pursued. - Jim Rohn
- Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. - Jim Rohn
- Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. - Jim Rohn
- Successis doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Jim Rohn
- Successis neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn
- Successis not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn
- Successis nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. - Jim Rohn
- Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. - Jim Rohn
- Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn
- Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. - Jim Rohn
- The book you don't read won't help. - Jim Rohn
- The difficulties you meet will resolve themselvesas you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path. - Jim Rohn
- The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. - Jim Rohn
- 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. - Jim Rohn
- The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. - Jim Rohn
- Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed. - Jim Rohn
- The more you know the less you need to say. - Jim Rohn
- The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. - Jim Rohn
- The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. - Jim Rohn
- The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. - Jim Rohn
- There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it’s what we do with them that's important. - Jim Rohn
- Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. - Jim Rohn
- Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. - Jim Rohn
- To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask? - Jim Rohn
- We get paid for bringing value to the market place. - Jim Rohn
- We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. - Jim Rohn
- Whatever good things we build end up building us. - Jim Rohn
- The most important question to ask on the job is not "What am I getting?" The most important question to ask on the job is "What am I becoming?" - Jim Rohn
- When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. - Jim Rohn
- Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. - Jim Rohn
- Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. - Jim Rohn
- Work harder on yourselfthan you do on your job. - Jim Rohn
- You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. - Jim Rohn
- You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. - Jim Rohn
- You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. - Jim Rohn
- Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. - Jim Rohn
- How long should you try? Until. - Jim Rohn
- Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available. - Jim Rohn
- When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. - Jim Rohn
- One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental ‘I should’ list. - Jim Rohn
- Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? - Jim Rohn
- We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need. - Jim Rohn
- Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are. - Jim Rohn
- Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal. - Jim Rohn
- My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's! - Jim Rohn
- I used to say, "Things cost too much." Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, "The problem isn't that things cost too much. The problem is that you can't afford it." That's when I finally understood that the problem wasn't "it" - the problem was “me”. - Jim Rohn
- I remember saying to my mentor, "If I had more money, I would have a better plan." He quickly responded, "I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money." You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts. - Jim Rohn
- To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence. - Jim Rohn
- One discipline always leads to another discipline. - Jim Rohn