Rohn Quotes & Sayings

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do. — Jim Rohn

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

When your outflow exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall — Jim Rohn

The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around. — Jim Rohn

The major key to your better future is you. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind? — Jim Rohn

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard. — Jim Rohn

You must take personal responsibiity. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. — Jim Rohn

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn

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

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

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent! — Jim Rohn

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. — Jim Rohn

Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give. — Jim Rohn

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want. — Jim Rohn

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, "If it is to be, it is up to me." That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn't mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career. — 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

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. — Jim Rohn

For what it will make of you to achieve it. — Jim Rohn

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it. — Jim Rohn

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. — Jim Rohn

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out. — Jim Rohn

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time, ... but we get paid for the value, not the time. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

If you could do better, should you? — Jim Rohn

We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, 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. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source. — 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

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things! — Jim Rohn

If you will change, things will change for you. — Jim Rohn

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

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read. — Jim Rohn

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. — 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

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. — Jim Rohn

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. — Jim Rohn

A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.' — Jim Rohn

Gratitude is what starts the receiving process. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change — Jim Rohn

Discipline means we don't let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them! — Jim Rohn

There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn. — Brian Tracy

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. — Jim Rohn

Escape is easier than change. — Jim Rohn

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

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Rohn

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body. — Jim Rohn

Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything. — Jim Rohn

Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it. — Jim Rohn

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. — Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear. — Brian Tracy

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first. — Jim Rohn

Make measurable progress in reasonable time. — Jim Rohn

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

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. — Jim Rohn

Ideas are information taking shape. — 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

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. — Jim Rohn

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. — Jim Rohn

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk. — 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

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values. — Jim Rohn

There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

If you will change everything will change for you. Don't wait for things to change. Change doesn't start out there, change starts within ... All change starts with you. — Jim Rohn

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years. — Jim Rohn

The more you know, the less you need to say. — Jim Rohn

Mesmerizing! I've heard Jim Rohn speak on numerous occasions and I still listen intently to every word he says. His delivery is flawless; his ideas - timeless. — Tony Alessandra

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. — Jim Rohn

Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change. — Jim Rohn

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association. — Jim Rohn

Things don't just happen; things happen just. — Jim Rohn

For things to change for you, you've got to change! — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

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

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. — Jim Rohn

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. — Jim Rohn

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

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. — Jim Rohn

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn

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 — Jim Rohn

No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. — Jim Rohn

I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process. — Alexis Ohanian

The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use. — Jim Rohn

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction. Trying to be "always nice" is to invite certain disaster. Those with poisonous attitudes, strange opinions, and caustic conversations love to look for someone nice who will listen to them. They love to dump their verbal garbage into the mental factory of anyone willing to listen. A major challenge in life is for each person to learn the art of standing guard at the doorway of their mind. Carefully examine the credentials and authority of those seeking to enter within that place where your attitudes are formed. — Jim Rohn

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom — Jim Rohn

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak. — Jim Rohn

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice. — Jim Rohn

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. — Jim Rohn

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. — Jim Rohn

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. — Jim Rohn

You can help a thousand ... but you can't carry three on your back! — Jim Rohn