Jim Rohn Quotes & Sayings

Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself. — Jim Rohn

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.' — Jim Rohn

Labor gives birth to ideas. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength. — Jim Rohn

If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down. — Jim Rohn

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. — Jim Rohn

You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years. — Jim Rohn

Learn to express, not impress. — Jim Rohn

Help another and you will be the one who benefits most — Jim Rohn

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs — Jim Rohn

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value. — Jim Rohn

It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it. — Jim Rohn

Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar. — Jim Rohn

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement. — Jim Rohn

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. — Jim Rohn

Life is accumulative - Either our errors accumulate to what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. — Jim Rohn

To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key. — Jim Rohn

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better. — Jim Rohn

If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible. — Jim Rohn

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. — Jim Rohn

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it. — Jim Rohn

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory. — Jim Rohn

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least. — Jim Rohn

The Bible says that it is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. It doesn't say that it is impossible! — Jim Rohn

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go. — Jim Rohn

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. — Jim Rohn

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. — Jim Rohn

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes. — Jim Rohn

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in. — Jim Rohn

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. — Jim Rohn

Stand guard at the door of your mind. — Jim Rohn

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there""Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value — Jim Rohn

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. — Jim Rohn

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible. — Jim Rohn

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

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

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. — Jim Rohn

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

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. — Jim Rohn

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people. — Jim Rohn

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances. — Jim Rohn

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

We don't get what we need. We get what we search for. — Jim Rohn

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. — Jim Rohn

Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life. — Jim Rohn

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier. — Jim Rohn

The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem. — Jim Rohn

It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential ... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can. — Jim Rohn

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner. — Jim Rohn

Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future. — Jim Rohn

Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills. — Jim Rohn

Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
then you must learn to control you ...
the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts. — Jim Rohn

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

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't. — Jim Rohn

If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday. — Jim Rohn

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way. — Jim Rohn

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing. — Jim Rohn

Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on." — Jim Rohn

In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend. — Jim Rohn

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two. — Jim Rohn

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself. — Jim Rohn

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day. — Jim Rohn

What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is. — Jim Rohn

What you don't know will hurt you. — Jim Rohn

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people. — Jim Rohn

Just a few daily disciplines make a big difference — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. — Jim Rohn

Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will." — Jim Rohn

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?' — Jim Rohn

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it. — Jim Rohn

Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'. — Jim Rohn

Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them. — Jim Rohn

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad. — Jim Rohn

Once you set goals that really matter to you, you are no longer the same person. Real goals will affect almost everything you do all day long. And they will be with you wherever you go. Your handshake, your manner of dressing, the tone of your voice, the way you feel - all will change once you have goals. That's because when your goals matter, everything you do becomes related to their accomplishment. — Jim Rohn

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development. — Jim Rohn

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

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. — Jim Rohn

Formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! — Jim Rohn

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. — Jim Rohn

Imagination is the beginning of reality. — Jim Rohn

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. — Jim Rohn

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require. — Jim Rohn

Take care of your physique. It's the one place it's a must to reside. — Jim Rohn

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service. — Jim Rohn

A life worth living is a life worth recording. — Jim Rohn

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. — Jim Rohn

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure ... get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. — Jim Rohn

Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today. — Jim Rohn

If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. — Jim Rohn

What you become directly influences what you get. — Jim Rohn

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try. — Jim Rohn

Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up. — Jim Rohn

Associations are both subtle and powerful. — Jim Rohn

Money is usually attracted, not pursued. — Jim Rohn

Part of success is preparation on purpose. — Jim Rohn

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting. — 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