Emanuel James "Jim" Rohn (September 17, 1930 – December 5, 2009) was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker.
Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.
I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars
If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace.
Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.
There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.
The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.
We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
You have to do more than you get paid for because that’s where the fortune is.
Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.
Things will always go wrong so ride through your difficulties and learn from them.
I used to say, ‘Things cost too much. ’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it. ’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me. ’
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.
Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.
We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
Motivation is a mystery. Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know. It's part of the mysteries of life.