Jim Rohn

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.

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.

Your income rarely exceeds your personal development.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

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

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorised.

We will either find a way or make one.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.

In a lot of ways it is easier to do things on a large scale. It is easier to build a skyscraper in Manhattan than it is to buy a bungalow in the Bronx. For one thing, it takes just as much time to close a big deal as it does to close a small deal. You will endure as much stress and aggravation; you will have all the same headaches and problems. It is easier to finance a big deal. Bankers would much rather lend money for a big project than for a small one. They are more comfortable investing money in a big prestigious building than they are a rundown house in a bad section of town. If you succeed with the big project, you stand to gain a lot more money.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

I’m wary of what goal I set, because then I’ll have to accomplish it.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

Selling is something we do for our clients – not to our clients.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.