"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
Jim Rohn was a renowned entrepreneur and motivational speaker known for his insights on personal development and success strategies.
- Born
- September 17, 1930
- Died
- December 5, 2009
- Quotes
- 796
- Rank
- #318
Quote collection
Jim Rohn quotes (page 25 of 40)
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"Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want."
"Some teachers teach for others to learn. That's not me. Some teachers teach for others to accomplish. That is me."
"Imagination is the beginning of reality."
"Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner."
"It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success."
"Profits are better than wages."
"To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one."
"The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?"
"Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action."
"Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'"
"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."
"Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it."
"Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest."
"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
"Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar."
"Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way."
"The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline."
"It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future."
"God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out."