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It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

Jim Rohn

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Jim Rohn
Age: 79 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 17
Died: 2009
Died: December 5
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