Jim Rohn Quotes
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
Rohn, Jim. The Treasury of Quotes. Jim Rohn International, 1994.
They lost. Sweden had a combination of a high standard of living, a very robust and effective social safety net and a high marginal income tax rate. For Swedes who do not work, life is far better than for employed people in most other countries. For those who work, they pay a large proportion of their earnings as taxes. So the very hard worker is left with comparatively little advantage over non workers. Conservatives have always warned that this is a formula for economic stagnation as few people will work. The reality in Sweden and a few other nations, is that the vast majority of the Swedes choose to work—but they work not to survive, but for reasons which range from interest in their work, the social interaction of the workplace, the desire to create things and make a difference in society. Even in America there are many who work who do not need the money and are motivated by non-monetary factors.
This was one of the first efforts to develop a modern agribusiness. Cockburn is regarded as the “father of Scottish agriculture.”
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.
Ironically, Fitzhugh who detested socialism, held this basic socialist principle. His solution however, was that the profits were necessary for society, and therefore slavery was the solution for Blacks AND whites.
Emanuel James Rohn professionally known as Jim Rohn, was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker.
