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Inspirational Quotes by Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

Inspirational Quotations by Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

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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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

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Excuses

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

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Knowledge

Ask yourself, “How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?” I suggest you answer, “As long as it takes.”
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Dreams

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: Influence, Leadership

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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Knowledge, Beginning, Learning

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

The most important question to ask on the job is not “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job is “What am I becoming?”
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Work

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Change

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: Goal, Goals

We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Purpose

Labor gives birth to ideas.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Ideas

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

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.
—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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Accomplishment, Discipline, One liners

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Ideas

Income seldom exceeds personal development.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Learning

The most important question to ask on the job is not “What am I getting?” The most important question to ask on the job is “What am I becoming?”
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Work

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, “Me, too!” versus “So what?”
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Communication

If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Habits

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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Decisions

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 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.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Leadership, Challenges

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Discipline, Effort, One liners

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Time Management, Goals, Productivity

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
—Jim Rohn
Topics: Challenges, Leadership, Leaders

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

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

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