Jim Rohn Quotes

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan.

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

What is easy to do is also easy not to do.

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

To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.

For things to change for you, you've got to change!

We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.

We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

Life responds to deserve and not to need.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

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

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

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.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

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.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

Everything changes when you change.

Treat the past as a school.

. . . escape is easier than change.

Finding is reserved for those who reach.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

It's not what happens, it's what you do that determines your future.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.

Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success.

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

What you don't know will hurt you.

For things to change you need to change. For things to get better you need to get better. The good news is you can change, you can get better and you can start right where you are at and you can go as far as you want to go.

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

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

A life worth living is a life worth recording.

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.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.