Jim Rohn Quotes

When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of anything except how to ask questions. And by asking questions, he would prove to other people that they didn’t know what they thought they knew.

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

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

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

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

The more you care, the stronger you can be.

Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

The book you don't read won't help.

It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.

Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.

Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.

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.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.

Accuracy builds credibility.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

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

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.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, "Liars shouldn't lie." What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.