Jim Rohn Success Quotations

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."

Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?"

Successful people are action oriented.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

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

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

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.

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

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

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

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

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

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills