Jim Rohn Quotes (page 2)

American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
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“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Education
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
Concentration
“You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”
Wages
“When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.”
Desire
“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
Time and Time Management
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Risk
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
Communication
“Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.”
Attitude
“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.”
Value
“Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.”
Philosophers and Philosophy
“Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.”
Maturity
“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
Money
“Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”
Books and Reading
“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”
Ideas
“There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.”
Influence
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
Happiness
“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.”
Labor
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”
Pain
“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
Words
“Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.”
Experience
“Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”
Success
“Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.”
Books and Reading
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”
Failure
“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.”
Leaders and Leadership
“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.”
Planning
“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?”
Obstacles
“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.”
Ask
“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
Service
“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.”
Decisions
“Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.”
Service