Jim Rohn Quotes

There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."

People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

History told me that you just keep working, and it is easy to make more money.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

Provide more service than what you get paid for

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches-perish the thought; because it's not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work. Riches come if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.