Rohn's Quotes

#1. Jim Rohn's perspective on personal development is simply unparalleled. His books and appearances have touched the lives of untold thousands, and I am pleased to include him among my most admired friends.

Don Hutson

#2. Jim Rohn's law of diminishing intent says that the longer you delay something, the less probability you have of actually doing it.

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#3. It is not the hours of practice that matter ... it's what you put into the hours that counts.

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#4. Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

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#5. Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

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#6. It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

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#7. We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

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#8. It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

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#9. Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.

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

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#11. Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

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#12. Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me.

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#13. The wind blows on us all, but it's how you set your ssail that makes the difference.

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#14. One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

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#15. 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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#16. It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

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#19. It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.

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#20. 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.

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#21. Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

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#22. 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.

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#23. Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

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#24. It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

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#25. If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planed for you? Not much.

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#26. Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.

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#27. Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

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#28. You have to do more than you get paid for because that's where the fortune is.

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#29. Successful people are action oriented and they have bigger libraries than TV's

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#30. Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.

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#31. From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

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#32. 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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#33. If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed

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#34. 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.

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#35. Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles. That's a quote from America's business philosopher, Jim Rohn.

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#36. 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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#37. It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.

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#38. For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

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#39. Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

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#40. It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.

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#41. Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines ... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?

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#42. Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

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#43. Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

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#44. It's not getting the million that's important, it's what it makes of you to achieve becoming a MILLIONAIRE.

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#45. Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.

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#46. 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!

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#47. Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'

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#48. If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

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#49. It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.

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

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#51. Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

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

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#53. There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness,
health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities
waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.

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#54. There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

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#55. The guy says, "When you work where I work, by the time you get home, it's late. You've got to have a bite to eat, watch a little TV, relax and get to bed. You can't sit up half the night planning, planning, planning." And he's the same guy who is behind on his car payment!

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#56. Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

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#57. A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

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#58. 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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#59. Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand!

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#60. Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

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

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#62. It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

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#63. the man who has a favorite restaurant but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind! One

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#64. When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

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#65. It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.

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#66. wages are good,...Profits are better.

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#67. The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.

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#68. I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! The

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#69. Help another and you will be the one who benefits most

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#70. 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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#71. When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

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#72. 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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#73. Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

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#74. 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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#75. We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

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#76. It is better to be a lender than a spender.

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#77. Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

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#78. 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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#79. Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

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#80. Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

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#81. Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.

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#82. Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

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#83. The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.

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

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#85. If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

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#86. Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.

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#87. Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.

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#88. Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.

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#89. Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

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#90. Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.

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#91. Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.

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#92. The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

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#93. We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

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#94. You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

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#95. It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?

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#96. Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

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#97. To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

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#98. There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes, it's what we do with them that's important

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#99. Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

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#100. You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

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