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Jim Rohn
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Jim Rohn
Age: 79 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 17
Died: 2009
Died: December 5
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Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
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As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.
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Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
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Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you're not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?
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Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.
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What you don't know will hurt you.
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Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.
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Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.
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Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.
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Leaders must not be naive. I used to say, Liars shouldn't lie. What a sad waste of words that is! I found out liars are supposed to lie. That's why we call them liars - they lie! What else would you expect them to do?
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Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.
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Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
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The good life is not an amount it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.
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We’ve all heard the expression, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ Well, I’ve got a good question for you: What if it’s true? Wouldn’t that be easy to do-to eat an apple a day? Here’s the problem: It’s also easy not to do.
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Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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All of life is a risk in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
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Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.
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Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.
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