Jim Rohn Quotes

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

I'd like to be better at short, snappy answers.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.

Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because when you bring emotion into the conversation, you furnish your colleagues with an easy "out" for dismissing you. If you are able to strip out the emotion, however, people have to deal with you based on the facts.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way…

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

Don't say yes until I finish talking.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.