Jim Rohn Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

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#3. Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

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

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

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#8. When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.

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#9. Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

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#10. Don't be anybody's follower, be a student.

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#11. Don't blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music.

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#12. James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?

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#13. How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

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#16. What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.

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#17. You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

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#18. Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you can't get more time.

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#19. 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.

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#20. A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

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#21. Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

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#22. You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

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#23. Wishes are an anesthetic to
be used by the unambitious, a
narcotic that dulls their awareness of
their own desperate condition

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#24. Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

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#25. what you do with what you have is more important than what you have.

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#26. Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like.

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#27. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

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#28. We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

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#29. 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?

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

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#31. The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

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#32. Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.

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#33. In order to do more. I've got to be more.

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

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#35. Time properly invested is worth a fortune.

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#36. How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

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#37. If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

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#38. We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

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#39. To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

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#40. Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

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#41. Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

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

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#43. Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

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#44. The fact is that living the life of your dreams is possible. People prove that every day. Someone somewhere is going to get rich, get healthy and improve their life. My recommendation is this: Let it be you

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#45. The book you don't read won't help

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#46. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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#47. When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.

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#48. One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day.

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#49. Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"

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#50. Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

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#51. Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up.

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#52. Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

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#53. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

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#54. Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your own.

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#55. Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

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#56. There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

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#57. Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

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#58. To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.

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#59. Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.

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#60. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

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#61. Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

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#62. Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.

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#63. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

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#64. Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

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#65. A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

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#66. Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.

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#67. What you have at the moment you have attracted by the person you have become.

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

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#69. One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

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#70. Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.

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#71. Finding is reserved for those that search.

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#72. One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

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#73. 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

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

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#75. Success is a refined study of the obvious

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#76. 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.

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#77. Take advice, but don't take orders.

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#78. Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

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#79. If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

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#80. Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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#81. Take care of your physique. It's the one place it's a must to reside.

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#82. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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#83. Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

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#84. If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

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#85. What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

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#86. When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.

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#87. Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.

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#88. What you become directly influences what you get.

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#89. Finding is reserved for those who reach.

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#90. Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

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#91. The reason most people don't accomplish much is because they don't want much.

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#92. The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

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#93. 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.

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#94. Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

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#95. Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

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#96. I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

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#97. Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

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#98. Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

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#99. We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want.

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#100. Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

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