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The Greatest Motivational Speaker of All Time

Jim Rohn Bio:

Jim Rohn is a philosopher, motivational counselor, business executive, and bestselling author. He has been recognized as the greatest motivational speaker of all time. He is one of the world's most sought-after success counselors and business philosophers, with some of his most thought-provoking topics being sales and entrepreneurial skills, leadership, sales and marketing, success and personal development. Jim Rohn has conducted seminars for over 39 years and addressed over 6,000 audiences and 4 million people worldwide.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Cultivating an Unshakeable Character

Travel anywhere in the world and you will see what we grew up believing about America is still true: despite the huge changes that have taken place, this is still...

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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How to Have Your Best Year Ever

In this exciting DVD seminar, master motivator Jim Rohn gives you proven principles that are guaranteed to inform, educate, energize and inspire you to unimagined levels of success. Under his expert guidance, you’ll learn new ways of developing and improving the skills known and used only by the top 3% of the world’s achievers. You’ll also get the tools and confidence you need to bring your life up to and even beyond the level of your most ambitious vision.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Take Charge of Your Life

In this energetic wisdom-packed live seminar, Jim will teach you the art of persuasion, controlling your emotions, becoming a true leader, reading other people, and being a team player in...

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

The Art of Exceptional Living

Great minds have considered Jim Rohn the greatest business and personal success philosopher ever. After listening to The Art of Exceptional Living you will discover why.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

The book you don't read won't help.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The book you don't read won't help.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The Power of Ambition

In "The Power of Ambition" Jim Rohn will explain how to transform your inner drive into measurable results. Learn how to master the six principles of ambition, increase your salary...

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

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.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Jim Rohn Video:
Personal Development to Greatness

The Day That Turns Your Life Around

In The Day That Turns Your Life Around, esteemed motivational master Jim Rohn shares the essential elements of a life-changing day with you, and shows you how to consciously create the conditions that make dramatic, lasting personal transformation not merely possible, but inevitable.

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