Quotes from Jim Rohn

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

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

The best motivating is self-motivating. 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."

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.

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

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development.

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.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.

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.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average

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

Life asks us to make measurable progress in reasonable time. That's why they make those fourth-grade chairs so small–so you won't fit in them at age 25.