Jim Rohn Quotes

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Be brief. Above all things be brief.

Never say more than is necessary.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

Conciseness is underrated

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.