Quote from Jim Rohn's Video #1268

2:04 Be a student not a follower. Somebody says - I read this book should I follow? The answer is - no, read at least 2 books and make up your own mind.

2:18 Be independent. Take advice but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Make sure what you finally do is the product of your own conclusion

2:30 Debate all the ideas

3:06 Half dozen basic things

3:40 Success is not doing extraordinary things, success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well

3:51 Poor people can talk and rich people can talk, looks like rich people talk better. It's just learning A skill with a high degree of precision. Learning to speak is called survival, learning to speak well is called success. So we can speak well enough to survive or we can speak the extra well enough to succeed

4:32 Philosophy

4:33 Philosophy is simply what you know and what you know greatly affects how your life works out

4:44 What you don't know greatly affects how your life works out. The idea you miss could be the missing number in trying to put the numbers in the lock

4:53 What you don't know will hurt you

5:00 Ignorance is not bliss. It's important to know, it's important to get the information

5:20 Weight everything

5:06 Weigh before you pay

7:08 Poor thinking habits keep most people poor. Not poor working habits. Most people work hard but they don't think hard

7:51 If you really want to help somebody / motivated idiot

8:18 Keep up the learning process after school

10:36 Life is accumulative. Our errors either accumulate into what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. Now the key is to correct the errors as early as possible

10:56 How much money have you invested in the last six years?

12:19 You can't do what you don't know. But the key is to keep learning so that good ideas keep occurring to you - now you can do more wise things. But philosophy is where it all begins - what you know

13:23 No matter what they pay I always come early and I always stay late, to invest in my own future. Is not it fascinating? Attitude is by choice. You can either choose to come early or you can choose to come late. You can either choose to leave early or you can choose to stay late. Attitude is a matter of choice

14:21 Emotions must go to school to learn where the values are

15:12 How we feel is going to greatly determine how our life works out

15:21 Use past as a school!

17:25 Set goals!

17:25 If you don't feel good about the future by having goals set you take what we call uncertain steps

17:31 Set goals, write them down, design the future

18:24 How the day goes is greatly determined by your confidence about the future

18:50 You can't succeed by yourself

18:50 If you want to do well it takes all of us to help each of us. You can't succeed by yourself

19:38 Learn from other people's experiences

21:28 Self esteem comes from engaging in the disciplines that lead to value

21:35 To bring value from potential we need the disciplines

21:42 One of the major things that makes us not feel good about ourselves is not engaging in the disciplines

22:17 The greatest lift of self esteem is doing the best you can

21:42 Ant's philosophy

22:04 To feel good about yourself do the best you can. Gather all you can during the summer

22:11 Ant's don't settle for half. They go for all. All you possibly can, do the best you can.

22:04 To feel good about yourself do the best you can. Gather all you can during the summer. We call that the Ant's philosophy. Ant's don't settle for half. They go for all. All you possibly can, do the best you can. The greatest lift of self esteem is doing the best you can

22:44 Success is a doing. You actually now have to do it

22:52 God has designed that the major part of the value of our life Is left to our own mental genius. You have got to decide what you want to become. Then you have to simply go do it, engaging in the disciplines

23:14 What should be the ratio of work and rest?

24:07 Don't rest too long. It's a push-shove world

24:58 It's push-shove world. So you can't relax too much and you can't rest too long. If you rest too long the weeds take the garden. And if you don't think so, we call you naive!

25:10 Make rest a necessity not an objective. The objective of life is not to rest. The objective of life is to accomplish. Full growth. Full accomplishment. Test the outer limits of your abilities. That's what life is all about. See what all you can do

25:40 The average syndrome

25:51 People who live mediocre lives are always looking forward to getting off. Successful people are always looking forward to getting on. Successful people don't want OFF, they want ON. They want to get on with the job. They rest only enough to gather strength

26:25 Whatever your hands currently find to do, do it with all your might. Whatever you are doing do it with all your might. We call that "philosophy on activity". How hard should you work? - As hard as you can!

26:47 When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't play at work. Don't work at play. Make best use of your time. When you are working pour it on and when you are playing - have a good time, but don't play at work

27:52 Do the best you can! In activity we call it "doing your best". That's all we ask, simply - your BEST

28:11 If you want to put together a championship team, one simple requirement for all those who participate - just do your best. If everybody does their best, whatever that brings us to #1, #2 wherever we arrive when the final count is made is OKAY if we all know when it's over - WE DID OUR BEST

29:08 If you are capable of making a half million dollars a year and you make $50,000 a year, we call you LOSER. We don't call you LOSER because of the difference between $50,000 and a half million, we call you LOSER because you are not doing your best

29:24 If you do your best and you make $10,000 a year, that's enough. If you do your best and you make a million a year, that's enough. Enough is not the difference between $10,000 and a million, ENOUGH is simply - doing the best you can

28:36 How much is enough? Do your BEST!

30:11 Full Effort

31:36 Results is the name of the game

31:22 That's what life is all about - putting the first three together: 1. Good philosophy; 2. Attitude; 3. High activity - to get the ultimate called RESULTS. Results is the name of the game

31:55 The challenge of life is to make measurable progress in reasonable time

32:58 It's unacceptable! Pressure demands for the rest of life

35:35 Make the demands on yourself

35:53 How many books will the community demand that you read every month approximately? About none! So if you are going to do the extra reading, guess what? You've got to develop that philosophy and put that pressure on yourself

36:13 Check results!

38:31 Happiness is an art, not an accident

39:05 Money does not solve the happiness challenge. To be happy you got to study and practice happiness

38:47 Culture is a study. It's not an amount. Somebody says - if you have an amount of money you will be cultured - the answer is: No. Culture is a study. Culture is a refinement of the mind. Tu be cultured you must study culture and practice culture. Money does not solve the culture challenge

39:16 A rose on time is more valuable than a thousand dollar gift too late. It's not the amount that counts, it's the genius that counts. It's the ideas that count

39:29 How to be happy with what you've got while you pursue what you want

40:25 10 years from now you will arrive. The question is: Where? Now is the time fix the next 10 years