Quotes from Jim Rohn

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

You have the power to mold your life how ever you want. To shape it and reshape it.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

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

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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.

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

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