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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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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Planning
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
—Jim Rohn
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something.
They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.
—Jim Rohn
Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It’s all available. All you have to do is go to the library.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Reading, Libraries, Future, Books
There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn’t let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.
—Jim Rohn
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for
greatness great wealth, great return,
great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
—Jim Rohn
If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.
—Jim Rohn
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Reading
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Emotions
Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.
—Jim Rohn
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Knowledge
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
—Jim Rohn
If you want to see change, you have to change. If you want your people to get better, you have to get better.
—Jim Rohn
I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do—if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Miracles, Doing Your Best
Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.
—Jim Rohn
We all know a variety of ways to make a living.
What’s even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.
—Jim Rohn
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
—Jim Rohn
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Character
Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it’s a matter of inspiration.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Wealth
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.
—Jim Rohn
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
—Jim Rohn
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
Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.
—Jim Rohn
Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.
—Jim Rohn
Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.
—Jim Rohn
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
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence
One discipline always leads to another discipline.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
Some things you have to do every day.
Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of
one a day just isn’t going to get the job done.
—Jim Rohn
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
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Leadership
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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Goals
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