Emanuel James "Jim" Rohn (September 17, 1930 – December 5, 2009) was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker.
Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.
Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.
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.
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.
The best motivation is self-motivation.
Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
Part of success is preparation on purpose.
Education must precede motivation.
We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.
If you don't like where you are, then change it. You are not a tree!
Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.
The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.