Wit & Attitude Quote by Jim Rohn

Rohn is selling humility the way a good businessman sells anything: as a practical upgrade, not a moral ornament. The opening admission - that his former certainties have expired - isn’t a confession designed to look virtuous; it’s a credibility move. He positions himself as someone who has changed his mind, which quietly signals experience, exposure, and a willingness to revise. In the self-improvement marketplace, that’s a powerful credential: not perfection, but adaptation.

The subtext is a critique of ego disguised as common sense. By reminding you that your own beliefs have a short shelf life, he undercuts the emotional need to “win” disagreements. The line “how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me” reframes dissent from an insult into data: if you’ve evolved, why assume everyone else is standing at your current point on the timeline? It’s a gentle dismantling of the fantasy that your present-day convictions are the final version.

Context matters: Rohn built a career teaching personal development to aspirational audiences, often entrepreneurs and salespeople who traffic in certainty as motivation. Here he sneaks in a counterbalance. Certainty can drive action, but it also breeds rigid, self-defeating conflict - with customers, partners, spouses, politics. His intent is to make tolerance feel strategic, not sentimental. You don’t relax your grip on being right because you’ve become passive; you do it because you’ve noticed your own track record.

It’s an argument for intellectual liquidity: the ability to hold beliefs firmly enough to act, loosely enough to update.