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Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Jim Rohn

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Jim Rohn
Age: 79 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 17
Died: 2009
Died: December 5
Author
Entrepreneur
Motivational Speaker
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Yakima
Washington
Emanuel James Rohn
Language
Gulf
Builds
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Impress
Designed
Bridges
Express

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The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.
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There are three things to leave behind your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!
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Don't be anybody's follower, be a student.
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Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.
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If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.
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You can help a thousand...but you can't carry three on your back!
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Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs
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Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like.
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It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.
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It is what you do about what happens that counts.
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If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
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Don't mistake movement for achievement.
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'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence.
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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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People would do better, if they knew better.
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There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful and second, influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.
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Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living profits make you a fortune.
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Don't just get through the day, get FROM the day
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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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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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