Jim Rohn Quotations | Page 4

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!"

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

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.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires.

If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

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.

If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to become better. If you improve, everything will improve for you. If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation.

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

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.'

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?

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

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.

Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.

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!

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

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.

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

What you don't know will hurt you.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

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.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

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.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Change and everything will change for you.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

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

There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." -- Jim Rohn

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

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

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

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.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!

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.

Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod 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?’

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

The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?

You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.

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.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

Time is the best kept secret of the rich.

Education must precede motivation.

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

You've got to believe in the possibilities. You've got to believe that tomorrow can be better than today. And here's the big one. Believe in yourself.

The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

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.

What you become directly influences what you get.

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

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

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.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

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.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

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.

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

There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.

I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

If kids clearly see the promise, they will gladly pay the price.

The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.

Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.

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.

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

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.