Jim Rohn Quotes
We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.
Rohn, Jim. The Treasury of Quotes. Jim Rohn International, 1994, p. 115.
Remark made during the Cuban missile crisis.
This used to be a generally accepted principle in America. It took labor to produce wealth. It could be someone else’s labor or even slave labor, but labor produced things or labor enabled us to find minerals like gold or oil. However, in modern capitalism, money itself can produce wealth by investing or yielding interest. Inventions produce wealth as do other ideas. Authors and movie producers produce wealth. Who you know can produce wealth (finder’s fees) as can knowledge.
This extreme position illustrates how a politician, trying to defend a particular position can get carried away and lose rational sense of balance. The air we breath is free and quite valuable—essential really. The exercise of most of our political rights is without charge. Legitimate religions do not require payment.
Emanuel James Rohn professionally known as Jim Rohn, was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker.
