Jim Rohn Quotes

One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat

I can't help from making money, that is all.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.

In regards to Oral Roberts' claim that God told him that he would die unless he received $20 million by March, God's lawyers have stated that their client has not spoken with Roberts for several years. Off the record, God has stated that 'if I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.

The whole notion that I don't appeal to the demographic - all my fans are young men. Someone asked me the other day, "So are your shows just full of 40-year-old single women?" I'm like, "I would be rich if that were true."

Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.

Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.

Playing 13 years is a long time, but I feel really good. It's not like I'm [old]. I'm just thankful.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.