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Jim Rohn

If you'll start making personal changes your income will change, your health will change, your future will change. Everything will change If you're willing to start making the changes

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Jim Rohn

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

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Jim Rohn

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

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Jim Rohn

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

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Jim Rohn

Just get ready for tomorrow's conversations today.
Get ready for next month this month.
Get ready for next year this year.
Always be a day ahead and a step ahead and a year ahead ...

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Jordan Peterson

You should understand how much potential there is within you to set that straight and then you should do everything you can to manifest that in the world and then it will set it straight

Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson

in order to truly appreciate love you have to understand and really have felt hate and to really appreciate camaraderie you have to feel loneliness. This is just a part of being a person

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Jim Rohn

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

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Jordan Peterson

If you took a random woman out of the population and a random man and you had to bet on who was more temperamentally aggressive, if you bet on the man you'd be right 60 percent of the time

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Jordan Peterson

Don't be fixing up the economy eighteen-year-olds, you don't know anything about the economy. It's a massive complex machine beyond anyone's understanding and you mess with it at your peril

Jordan Peterson
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Jim Rohn

To be sincere, it's got to be true. You just can't come up with sincerity telling with erroneous story. You might make it sound sincere but sure enough, someday, it'll some back to haunt you

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Jim Rohn

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

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Jim Rohn

Work harder on yourself

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living, which is fine. But if you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune, which is super fine

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Jim Rohn

It's not what happens, it's what you do

It's not what happens that determines the quality or the quantity of your life. It's what you do that changes everything. What happens is about the same. What people do - that's what's different

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Jordan Peterson

The injunction behind religious thought, fundamentally, is that you should live your life in such a way that the suffering it has to contain because you are confined and vulnerable, is justified

Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson

The distribution of the idea of individual sovereignty and property rights and free market economies out into the non-western world is making the non-western world rich really really really fast

Jordan Peterson
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Jim Rohn

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

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Jordan Peterson

Your family is more messed up than it could be, if you were less messed up than you are. So if you just got your act together like ten percent more your family would be one percent better.
Do it!

Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson

If you are radically left and you are playing the identity politics game there is actually no such thing as free speech because you are only the mouthpiece of your group whether you know it or not

Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson

You have to pursue things of value. If you do it with other people cooperatively and competitively, then you are going to produce differential outcome because people will be differently good at it

Jordan Peterson
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Jim Rohn

Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden but simply use your past as one of your mentors, to help refine mistakes, make some changes that you can invest now in the future

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Jordan Peterson

If enough of us realized divine responsibility sufficiently, there is nothing we could not accomplish, there is no desert we could not make bloom, there is no reason for zero sum malthusian pessimism

Jordan Peterson
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Jordan Peterson

The landscape of interpretation is almost infinite but the landscape of applicable functional interpretation is unbelievably constrained and I think that constraint system is what we regard as ethics

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Jordan Peterson

There is more to you than you think, there is more than enough potential to go around. There is definite suffering and malevolence in the world. We could fix it. You haven't got anything better to do

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