Jim Rohn Quotes

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

Those who never have time do least

The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.