Emanuel James Rohn, also known as Jim Rohn, was a famous American speaker, writer, and businessperson. He was born in Yakima, Washington 1930 to parents Emanuel and Clara Rohn.
Jim Rohn spent over 40 years giving seminars to people worldwide. He mentored Mark R. Hughes, the founder of Herbalife International, and Tony Robbins, a well-known life coach, in the late 70s. His speaking skills were so outstanding that 1985 he received the 1985 National Speakers Association CPAE Award for his exceptional speaking abilities.
Among his notable works are books like “The Power of Ambition,” “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America’s Foremost Business Philosopher,” and “My Philosophy For Successful Living.”
Read some of Jim Rohn’s motivational quotes if you’re looking for inspiration to lead a successful life. These quotes reflect his thoughts on leadership, success, work, and goals.
Jim Rohn Quotes About Leadership
1. “Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.”
2. “Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
3. “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.”
4. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”
5. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”
Jim Rohn Quotes About Success
1. “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.”
2. “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced daily.”
3. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
4. “Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.”
5. “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the fundamentals.”
6. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
7. “Success is not to be pursued. It is to be attracted by the person you become.”
Jim Rohn Quotes About Goals and Work
1. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
2. “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.”
3. “If you are unwilling to risk the unusual, you must settle for the ordinary.”
4. “Work harder on yourself than on your job.”
5. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
6. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
Jim Rohn Quotes About Money
1. “Never begrudge the money you spend on your education.”
2. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
3. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.”
4. “Don’t bring your need to the marketplace. Bring your skills. Tell your doctor if you don’t feel well, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, not the marketplace.”
5. “There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; what we do with them is important.”
More Jim Rohn Sayings
1. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
2. “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.”
3. “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.”
4. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
5. “We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace.”
6. “Labor gives birth to ideas.”
7. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.”
8. “Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.”
9. “For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.”
10. “Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
11. “Don’t just read the easy stuff. It may entertain you, but you will never grow from it.”
12. “Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated daily.”
13. “If you don’t design your life plan, you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
14. “A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”
15. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
16. “Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.”
17. “Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes, all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”
18. “Without a sense of urgency, desire loses value.”
19. “When you know what you want and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.”
20. “Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.”
21. “The book you don’t read won’t help.”
22. “The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”
23. “The reason fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who like to study people, is that in fiction, the author can tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
24. “Take time to gather up the past so that you can draw from your experience and invest them in the future.”
25. “The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.”
26. “The more you know, the less you need to say.”
27. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”
28. “Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. You weren’t born with it and must take responsibility for forming.”
29. “Make measurable progress in a reasonable time.”
30. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”
31. “Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
32. “Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.”
33. “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.”
34. “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind, that determines which way we will go.”
35. “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few judgment errors, repeated daily.”
36. “Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.”
37. “Whatever good things we build, end up building us.”
38. “The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.”
39. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
40. “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”
41. “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.”
42. “If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.”
43. “Formal education will make you. A living self-education will make you a fortune.”
44. “You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”
45. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
46. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
47. “Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
48. “Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.”
49. “To solve any problem, ask yourself three questions: What could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”
50. “Things that I felt sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.”
