Jim Rohn the Businessman, biography, facts and quotes

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live"

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

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

"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"

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion"

"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images"

"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 walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy"

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job"

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better"

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment"

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming"

"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said"

"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it"

"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace"

"We get paid for bringing value to the market place"

"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness"

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value"

"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy"

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

"The more you know the less you need to say"

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

"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"

"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch"

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

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

"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future"

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself"

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

"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"

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour"

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

"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing"

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time"

"Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me"

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals"

"Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book"

"Make measurable progress in reasonable time"

"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"

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins"

"Labor gives birth to ideas"

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go"

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions"

"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"

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

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much"

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

"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"

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward"

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

Occup.	Businessman
From	USA
Spouse	Margaret Rohn
Born	September 17, 1930 Caldwell, Idaho, USA
Died	December 5, 2009 Westlake Village, California, USA
Cause	Pneumonia
Aged	79 years

Jim Rohn Biography

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