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Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

Jim Rohn

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Jim Rohn
Age: 79 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 17
Died: 2009
Died: December 5
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Entrepreneur
Motivational Speaker
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Yakima
Washington
Emanuel James Rohn
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Humility is a virtue timidity is an illness.
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We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.
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Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
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Don't just let your business or your job make something for you let it make something of you.
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The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.
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We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.
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To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.
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You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.
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If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: ‘Why not?’ Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?
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