Quote from Jim Rohn's Video #1423

0:03 You can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are

0:20 Income does not far exceed personal development

0:45 Somebody once said if you took all the money in the world, and divided it up equally among everybody, it will soon all be back in the same pockets

0:58 Success is something you attract, not something you pursue. Success is looking for a good place to stay. So instead of going after it, you work on yourself [Personal Development]

1:10 The major question to ask on the job

1:10 The major question to ask on the job is not what am I getting paid here, the major question to ask on the job is what I am becoming here

1:30 True happiness is not contained in what you get. Happiness is contained in what you become

1:47 It's an unending challenge to see what you can become

2:07 Bible is a good textbook for ideas and stories and success equations - how to live the better life

2:24 If you look at your bank account and your income and you're not happy, there's sever places in the Bible to check to see what the heck's wrong so you can make the changes

2:43 Show me your list of goals

5:41 Human beings are emotional creatures. Emotions are powerful for life change. Emotions are so powerful they can go either way on you. Emotions can either build or destroy. So you really have to employ emotions properly

6:02 If you can intelligently apply your emotions in the right direction no telling what can happen, could turn your life around, one day would be sufficient

6:31 Major key to your better future is you

9:54 Value makes the difference in results. You can't get more time but you can create more value

10:21 We primarily get paid for value. Bringing value to the marketplace - that's how you get paid. You don't get paid for the time. I know it takes time to bring value to the marketplace but you get paid for the value not the time

11:26 It's possible to do much better at the marketplace if you go to work primarily on yourself

11:45 How to develop an above average income?

12:22 One of the most frustrating experiences in life is looking for an above average job with above average pay without becoming an above average person. It's called frustration

12:53 Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job

13:38 If somebody is wealthy and happy you have got to listen

13:44 For things to change for you you've got to change, otherwise it isn't going to change

17:22 The only way it gets better for you is when you get better

14:49 It gets light and turns dark - it's not going to change

17:52 Some people don't do well because they major in minor things. You've got to be on the lookout. At the end of every week, at the end of every month you've got to check make sure you're not spending major time on minor things

18:20 Life and business is like the changing seasons

18:20 Life and business is like the changing seasons. You can not change the seasons but you can change yourself. That's how life gets better for you - not by chance but by change

18:45 You can not change the seasons but you can change yourself

19:25 Learn how to handle the winters

20:01 Song of winter

21:17 You can't get rid of January by tearing it off the calendar. But here's what you can do - you can get stronger, you can get wiser and you can get better. The winters won't change but you can and that's how life changes for you

21:53 Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better; Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills; Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom; That's the key

23:00 Take advantage of the spring

23:21 In fact you have to get good at one of two things in life - planting in the Spring or begging in the Fall or get somebody to do it for you. Those are about the only alternatives

24:23 Learn how to protect your crops all summer. You got to take care of what you start. Sure enough as soon as you've planted your garden in the spring, the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it. They'll take it, unless you prevent it. You've got to learn to prevent the Intruder from taking all the good you start

25:05 All good will be attacked. Every garden will be invaded, not to think so is naive

25:25 All values must be defended: Political values Social values Community values Family values Marriage values Friendship values Business values ... Every garden must be tended all summer

26:06 Take full responsibility for what happens to you. It's one of the highest forms of human maturity. Accepting full responsibility

26:27 learn to reap in the fall without apology. without apology if you do well, and without complaint if you don’t. That’s maturity

26:42 Reasons for not looking good

29:54 It's not what happens, it's what you do

31:06 Anything can happen

32:35 Disappointments are not special gifts reserved for the poor. Everybody has them. The difference is - what you do about them

33:05 It's not what happens it's what you do

33:43 What are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference?

35:05 Reach down inside of you and come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts. They're there, waiting to be utilized and then change anything for you you want to change. And I challenge you to do that because you can change

35:25 If you don't like how it is for you change it! If it doesn't suit you change it! If it doesn't please you change it! If it isn't enough change it! And I challenge you to do that because you can change. You don't ever have to be the same again after tonight only by choice

35:43 If you don't like your present address, change it, you are not a tree

36:48 Discipline - major step to human progress. If there is one thing to get excited over - that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things

37:15 On any given day you can massively change the direction of your life

37:21 Murder is a clear example that any one person any given day can forever alter the course of their life. It just happens to be a negative act. But just as sure as you can commit a negative act, you can also commit a positive act and forever alter your life. Whenever you wish. That's exciting

38:31 Key to discipline

39:21 I found out you can’t change people. They can change themselves, but you can’t change them. Lord knows some I’ve tried. People have to change themselves

39:10 Self motivation

39:58 Good people are not trained, they are found. You find good people. You don't make them good, you find them good. Training really is for the purpose of finding good people. You don't need much instruction for a good person

40:27 Don't send your ducks to eagles school

41:05 What if they don't show up?

41:52 The first key to doing better is find out. To change your life really you need ideas. There isn't anything an idea can't change

42:01 The problem is lack of an idea on how to create money and wealth. It isn't lack of money it's lack of ideas so if you get the idea so you can change anything. To get ideas you need a constant study of finding out

42:33 Put the information in your journal. Don't use your head for a filing cabinet

41:40 Find out how things work - Capture the ideas in your journal

43:06 If you wish to be successful study success! If you wish to be happy study happiness! If you wish to be wealthy study wealsh! Don't leave it to chance, make it a study! Some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed. See that won't do it. You've got to study the things that can change your economic, social, spiritual personal life!

43:52 You may not be able to do all you find out. But you should find out all you can do

44:20 Be curious like a child

44:59 Curiosity, Excitement, Faith, Trust - Be like a child

45:17 Get excited like a child over your ability to make yourself do anything for change

45:22 Have faith like a child! Adults are too skeptical

45:29 Trust is a childish virtue but the rewards are incredible. So be like a child

45:56 Become a good reader!

46:17 Now that's my opinion. Listen to the other lectures, listen to me and make up your own mind. Don't be a follower, be a student

46:27 Learn from other people's experiences / Read books

48:54 Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is tragedy. You have got to know or you are going to get hurt

49:26 You don't have to like the setup. I don't ask you to like how it is. That's not what's important. But it's important to learn how it is. You don't have to like it but you should learn it

49:45 Make sure you get the information. What you think about it that's up to you. What you're going to do with it that'll soon be up to you but make sure you get it

49:57 There's nothing worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad but being stupid is awful. And what's really bad is being broken stupid. That's about the end of the world. There is not anything much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick broken stupid... there is nowhere else to go. So make sure you get the information. It's key. You don't have to like it but learn it!

52:21 Law of use

57:44 Whatever you do not employ you forfeit

54:34 Parable of the talents

52:42 Today unused is lost. A talent unused is lost ...

1:06:01 What does your TV cost?

58:00 Law of sowing and reaping

58:21 Whatever you sow you shall reap

59:24 Whatever you reap is what you've sown. If you don't like the crop who do you look up? Answer - whoever planted it. Where do you find who planted your crop? Answer - in the mirror

1:00:39 Seven points of sowing and reaping

1:00:51 If you sow bad you reap bad. If you plant thistle seeds you don't get pumpkins. If you sow good you reap good. If you plant pumpkin seeds you don't get thistles

1:01:52 You do not reap what you sow but rather you always reap much more than what you sow. You don't get back what you put out. You get back much more than what you put out. It works both positive and negative. On the negative side it said - if you sow to the wind you reap the whirlwind. So you've got to get ready for that or you will be naive

1:01:52 You do not reap what you sow but rather you always reap much more than what you sow

1:02:27 if you sow to the wind you reap the whirlwind. So you've got to get ready for that or you will be naive

1:04:45 sometimes it's going to hail on your crop and rain on your parade so got to get ready for that or you will be naive. That's just part of the life arrangement

1:05:19 If you don't sow you don't reap. You don't even have a chance

1:09:20 If you've got a good idea to share you should share it if there's one or a thousand

1:07:42 Preacher and Cowboy story

1:12:45 Reasons make the difference in how your life works out

1:13:46 If I had a million dollars ...

1:14:16 Sometimes we will do things for somebody else we will not do for ourselves. We are made that way

1:14:49 How fortunate are the people that find themselves greatly affected by somebody for personal achievement

1:12:45 Reasons for doing well

1:12:23 Reasons come first, answers come second. You don't get the answers to do well until you get the reasons

1:11:47 Reasons can change your life

1:12:36 Life has a mysterious way of hanging on to all the answers and only gives them up to the people that are inspired by reasons

1:13:16 Working for joy, satisfaction,.. not for money

1:13:46 Somebody says to me - "If I had a million dollars I'd never work another day in my life". That's probably why the good Lord does not give them a million. They'd quit. They'd quit

1:15:27 What was Andrew Carnegie's goal?

1:17:29 Mister, You are really something!

1:22:04 Budget Finance story

1:24:19 Robert's "lost" his mind

1:25:44 The best revenge is massive success

1:27:03 Your better future is a dream for yourself and for your family - where do you want to go, what do you want to do, what do you want to be, what do you want to see... You've got to dream dreams. There's a Bible phrase that says - without dreams and visions people perish. You've got to have something to go for that inspires the heart and the soul

1:30:24 Part of the fun of having a list is checking it off

1:30:41 When you check off something major, celebrate! Celebrate your achievements. Live it up! Have a party when you reach something you've worked for for a while

1:31:01 Pain of losing & Joy of winning

1:33:10 Many people work hard on their job but they don't work hard on their future. They just let that slide. And the work involved is making plans. I know most people don't. I understand that. But don't let that be you!

1:34:08 Somebody once wisely said - the people who fail to plan are planning to fail

1:34:20 Write your goals down

1:35:56 The guy is 50 and he's broke and he's still smiling, that's not good

1:36:06 Get serious about your goals

1:36:40 Different size and kinds of goals

1:36:56 Your goals are affecting you

1:37:17 Lousy goals

1:38:20 How to get whatever you want?

1:38:44 Ask! That's it

1:40:04 Asking is the beginning of receiving

1:40:30 Some people are always studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. I mean it depends on what end of it you want in on

1:40:40 Asking is the beginning of receiving so start the process

1:41:41 Don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon

1:40:44 Receiving is automatic. Good worker & Poor asker

1:42:31 Ask with intelligence! Be clear! Be specific!

1:43:00 Goals become like a magnet. They pull you that direction and the better you describe them the more they pull

1:43:15 Ask with faith!

1:43:13 Ask with faith! That's the childish part of the equation. Believe you can get what you want like a child, not an adult. Adults are too skeptical

1:43:37 Make plans like an adult and believe in them like a child and the most incredible things will happen. Just try it for 90 days. Just try it

1:44:05 You won't get everything you want. Simply sometimes it hails on your crop and rains on your parade. It's that kind of planet. But if you will work this goal setting formula you can get plenty for wealth and happiness

1:45:17 Disgust says - I've had it!

1:48:08 If it's easy do it easy, if it's hard do it hard just get it done!

1:48:18 If you went home tonight and in the next few days cleaned up a whole list of decisions that might furnish enough inspiration for the next 10 years. After you've decided getting on with it is easier than deciding. Sometimes decision is the toughest part

1:49:41 Sometimes from the bitterest experience comes the greatest awakening

1:49:00 Welcome every human experience

1:49:41 Sometimes from the bitterest experience comes the greatest awakening. So let down the barriers. Take down the walls. The same wall that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness. Let life touch you, don't let it kill you but let it touch you

1:49:56 Let life touch you, don't let it kill you but let it touch you

1:50:08 Resolve says - I will

1:50:35 I will do it or die

1:51:04 Definition of resolve

1:52:42 Jesus the master teacher said - don't just be listeners, be doers. The world admires the doers

1:53:04 Timid approach to life

1:55:02 Don't ask for security, ask for adventure!

1:53:29 The language of the poor

1:53:48 It's all risky

1:55:07 Better to live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe in the corner

1:35:16 It's not important how long you live what's important is how you live

1:55:31 Pessimism - attitude disease

1:55:37 All he needs is one, he's got five

1:56:31 What affects us most?

1:56:48 Our lives are mostly affected by the way we think things are, not the way they are. The way we think they are affects us most

1:57:07 Poor thinking habits

1:57:21 Mind is like a mental factory. Whatever you think about all day long pours ingredients into this mental factory and that's what builds economic, social, financial fabric of your life

1:57:39 As you think, so you become

1:58:28 The guy says - I want to be a great leader

1:59:30 How to build a good life?

2:00:14 Watch your coffee!

2:01:17 Every day stand guard at the door of your mind

2:01:40 You decide what goes into your mental factory. Don't let anybody just dump anything they want to in your mental factory because you've got to live with the results

2:02:10 Complaining, crying, whining, griping...

2:02:43 Result of complaining

2:04:19 Make sure you're winning the war / defend all the good you start!