Jim Rohn Quotes

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right jobs. And when I say 'right people,' I'm not talking about their college degree or work history; I'm talking about things like bearing - How does this person interact with other people? Can he or she talk to you and not tick you off?

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

I am not a dictator; I am a communicator.

I think I lead with empathy and connection to our people. I find that the most effective leadership style for me is to just talk and listen. It sounds simple, but it's so effective.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.