Jim Rohn (1930–2009) was an American motivational speaker and author. His rags-to-riches story played a large part in his success in the self-help industry.
Born on a farm in Yakima, Washington, Rohn was a protégé of the self-help speaker John Earl Shoaff, who was also a vice-president of sales in a nutritional supplement enterprise called AbundaVita. Rohn joined AbundaVita, grew prosperous, and spun his rags-to-riches story into a famous personal development philosophy lecture called “Idaho farm boy makes it to Beverly Hills.” This lecture evolved into a series of “Adventures in Achievement” live seminars and personal development workshops that Rohn delivered for over 40 years.
Rohn mentored other self-help speakers and authors, including Tony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, and T. Harv Eker.
Rohn’s notable publications include Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle (1991,) 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness (1996,) and the collection of essays The World is Yours (2019.)
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Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Health
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Labor
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
—Jim Rohn
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Attention, Attitude, Concentration
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: People
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline, Success & Failure
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Mediocrity, Future, Living
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Leaders, Leadership, Helpfulness
If you don’t like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn’t enough, change it. If something doesn’t suit you, change it. If something doesn’t please you, change it. You don’t ever have to be the same after today. If you don’t like your present address change it – you’re not a tree!
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Change
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples—do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings—don’t do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Reputation
Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Leadership
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Doing Your Best
We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals
Income seldom exceeds personal development.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Learning
Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.
—Jim Rohn
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Desire, Desires
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Purpose, Giving, Charity
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Sadness, Emotions, Joy, Excitement
If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Ideas
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. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals
The book you don’t read won’t help.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Book, Books, Reading
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Value
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Money
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Self-Esteem, Self Respect
Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: if you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Ideas
We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Risk
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Money
Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Success
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.
—Jim Rohn
One discipline always leads to another discipline.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline
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