Jim Rohn's quotes, sayings

Learn from personal experience. One way to learn to do something write is - first do it wrong. Mess up and then you say WOW! That was costly, I'm never gonna do that again. Sometimes a negative experience turns out finally to be positive

The game of life is to minimize the dangers and maximize the opportunities and the more we know and the more we learn the more experience we gather in sessions like this, from the sermon on Sunday morning, to the books we read, and all the rest, helps us to keep continually adjusting our philosophical guidance system, so that we minimize more dangers, maximize more opportunities. That's really the game of life

The more we learn, the more we know the better we are able to make better decisions

Each person's income is determined primarily by their philosophy not by the economy. Once I understood that, then I said - I don't have to go to work on the economy. You only have to go to work on yourself, to make yourself more valuable

Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person. Success is not something you pursue, it's what you attract, by becoming attractive. Multiple skills, multiple languages

Anybody that wants to get paid

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace.
The value you become like an entrepreneur, a leader, a teacher, supervisor, manager,.. what you become also pays much more than what you bring.
Go to work on yourself harder than you work on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you could make a fortune

Go to work on yourself harder than you work on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you could make a fortune

The value you become like an entrepreneur, a leader, a teacher, supervisor, manager,.. what you become also pays much more than what you bring

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace

How many languages can a child learn?

I asked a school teacher - How many languages can a child learn ?
Here is what she said - As many as you will teach them.
They don't lack capacity;
They don't lack intelligence;
Certainly don't lack curiosity;
They only lack a TEACHER

For economic safety for the future my personal advice - you've got to have more than one skill

Make sure you're winning the war / defend all the good you start!

Just be on the lookout of the things that can destroy all the good you start. The war is on. And this evening, tomorrow, mentally, personally, socially, economically, you got to make sure you're winning the war

Complaining, crying, whining, griping...

Complaining, crying, whining, griping, a Bible word called murmuring... see that will ace your future, spend five minutes complaining and you have wasted five, and you may have begun what’s known as economic cancer of the bone.
Surely they will soon haul you off into a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret

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

Every day stand guard at the door of your mind

How to build a good life? Answer - it's simple. it's not easy, but it's simple. Select the right ingredients, keep out the wrong ingredients and it starts with thought. Everything starts with thought. So you must be wise and careful what you think about, because that starts everything

The guy says - I want to be a great leader. Wonderful. The first thing we do is following to his house. When we get there we walk in and check his library number one. Somebody says well why check his library. The reason is because what a man reads pours massive ingredients into his mental factory and the fabric of his life is built from those ingredients

As you think, so you become

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

Poor thinking habits keeps most people poor. Not poor working habits. Most people work hard, but they don't think hard

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

What affects us most?

To the pessimist the glass is always half empty. To the optimist the glass is half full. Why would the same measure affect people two different ways. Answer - it all depends on how you look at it. 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

All he needs is one, he's got five

Pessimism - the deadly disease - always looking on the bad side, the problem side, the difficult side, checking all the reasons why it can't be done. Poor pessimist leads an ugly life. He doesn't try to figure out what's right, he tries to figure out what's wrong. He doesn't look for virtue, he looks for faults and when he finds them he's delighted - how ugly?!
This is the poor guy looks through the window, doesn't see the sunset, he sees the specs on the window.
And this poor guy says - "I've got five good reasons why it won't work". He is so dumb he doesn't know all he needs is one he's got five

It's not important how long you live what's important is how you live