jim rohn

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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?

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

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

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

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.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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.

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to have a better plan for your life.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.

Learn to help people with more than just their jobs: help them with their lives.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

“Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.”

“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.”

“Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?”

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

Only by giving are you able to recieive more than you already have.

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

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

What you live becomes an investment that will return to you multipled at some point in the future.

Somebody says, “Well, I can’t be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself.” Well, then you will always be poor.

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

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

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.

We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.

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.

Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much.

We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.

Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

Some people are disturbed by those tough days because all they have is the days. They haven’t designed or described or defined the future.

What you become directly influences what you get.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

What you become directly influences what you get

After you become a millionaire, you can give all of your money away because what’s important is not the million dollars; what’s important is the person you have become in the process of becoming a millionaire.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

The most important question to ask on the job is not “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job s “What am I becoming?”

Pity the man who inherits a millon dollars and who isn’t a millonaire. Here’s what would be pitiful: If your revenue grew and you didn’t.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibilty of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limt.

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

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

“Pay attention. Don’t just stagger through the day.”

“Pay attention. Don’t just stagger through the day.”

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely”

“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it”

“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”

“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”

“Success demands that we learn to disciplne our disappointment”

“You can have more than you’ve got, because you can become more than you are”

“If you share a good idea long enough, it will always fall upon good people”

“There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read”

“Without a sense of urgency, desire has no value”

“Learn to be happy with what you’ve got, while in pursuit of what you want”

“Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task”

“The future doesn’t get better by hope, it gets better by plan”

“For every promise, there is a price to pay”

“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch”

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values”

“Some people have learned to learn well, but they haven’t learned to live well”

“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength”

“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it s only available by labor”

“You must earn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor”

“Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change”

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

“Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.”

“There are no new fundamentals. You’ve got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, “I’ve got a new fundamental.” Thats like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing “antiques”

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequences of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”

“Sophisticated people don’t leave early. The man says, ‘Yeah, but I want to beat the traffic’ Isn’t that a great skill to have - beating the traffic!”

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It s the accumulative weight of our disciplnes and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure”

“The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own
personal development. I used to say, ‘If you wil take
care of me, I wil take care of you.’ Now I say, ‘I wil
take care of me for you f you wil take care of you for
me.’”

The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, “I wish someone
would come by and turn me on.” What if they don’t show up? You’ve got to
have a better plan for your life.

“Motivation alone s not enough. If you have an
idiot and you motivate hm, now you have a
motivated idiot.”

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.