"Wake up. Get up. Get something done."
-Granny
"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are, now."
-Teddy Roosevelt(I think)
Vegemite! Proof you can sell anything!
Dr. Richard Bandler
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's
rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against
legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral
purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless
self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the
proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and
greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should
be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of
privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of
his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you
are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one
of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Ayn Rand
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious
abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and
everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of
his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous
as government persecution... the only way a government can be of
service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Ayn Rand
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote;
a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the
political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from
oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the
individual).
Ayn Rand
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
It only stands to reason that where there's
sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where
there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to
you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be
the master.
Ayn Rand
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no
rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into
reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right
of property.
Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest
reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your
character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy
he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals
survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by
adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand
People create their own questions because they are
afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see
the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
Ayn Rand
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
Ayn Rand
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Ayn Rand
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
The only power any government has is the power to
crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one
makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes
impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate
inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it
pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the
stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by
brute force.
Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
Ayn Rand
When man learns to understand and control his own
behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the
behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in
believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand
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.
Jim Rohn
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Jim Rohn
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your
skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the
marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim Rohn
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim Rohn
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You
don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement,
repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim Rohn
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Jim Rohn
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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.
Jim Rohn
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get
off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make
progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn
Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the
beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim Rohn
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Jim Rohn
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Jim Rohn
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Jim Rohn
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim Rohn
The book you don't read won't help.
Jim Rohn
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as
you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing
clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim Rohn
The more you know the less you need to say.
Jim Rohn
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any
other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is
that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without
humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn
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?
Jim Rohn
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
Jim Rohn
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Jim Rohn
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line
for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great
reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim Rohn
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
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.
Jim Rohn
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
Jim Rohn