Jim Rohn Quotes

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.

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

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you're not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

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

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?’

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.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

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

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

Dreams get you started; discipline keeps you going.

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.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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

The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.

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

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

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.

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

The reason most people don’t accomplish much is because they don’t want much.

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

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.

To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Change and everything will change for you.

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

If you want to have more, you must become more.

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

Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The fact is that living the life of your dreams is possible. People prove that every day. Someone somewhere is going to get rich, get healthy and improve their life. My recommendation is this: Let it be you