Quotes by Rohn, Jim

"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."

Rohn, Jim on decisions
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"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."

Rohn, Jim on desire
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"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

Rohn, Jim on desire
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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Rohn, Jim on education
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"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."

Rohn, Jim on effort
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."

Rohn, Jim on experience
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"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

Rohn, Jim on failure   

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

Rohn, Jim on failure
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"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."

Rohn, Jim on giving
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"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."

Rohn, Jim on goals   

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time."

Rohn, Jim on goals
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"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

Rohn, Jim on happiness
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"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

Rohn, Jim on health
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."

Rohn, Jim on ideas
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"Labor gives birth to ideas."

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"There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives."

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"Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed."

Rohn, Jim on influence
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

Rohn, Jim on job
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"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Rohn, Jim on joy
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"The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor."

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"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."

Rohn, Jim on leadership
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"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average."

Rohn, Jim on leadership
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"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."

Rohn, Jim on leadership
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"Income seldom exceeds personal development."

Rohn, Jim on learning   

"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."

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

Rohn, Jim on maturity
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"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."

Rohn, Jim on mediocrity
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"Money is usually attracted, not pursued."

Rohn, Jim on money
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"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

Rohn, Jim on money   

"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?"

Rohn, Jim on obstacles   

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

Rohn, Jim on pain
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"Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through."

Rohn, Jim on perseverance   

"How long should you try? Until."

Rohn, Jim on perseverance
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"Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors."

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"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."

Rohn, Jim on planning
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"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."

Rohn, Jim on planning
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"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."

Rohn, Jim on ask
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"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

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"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."

Rohn, Jim on attitude
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