The Art of Exceptional Living Quotes

“For things to change, you have to change.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living

“There are some things you don’t have to know how it works – only that it works. While some people are studying the roots, others are picking the fruit. It just depends on which end of this you want to get in on." -- Jim Rohn”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living

“Things happen. Everyone has the same happenings. Someone may say, “Yes, but you don’t understand the disappointments I’ve had.” Come on, everyone has disappointments. Disappointments are not special gifts reserved for the poor. Everybody has them. The question is, what are you going to do about it?”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“Success is not something you pursue. Success is something you become. It’s not what happens that determines the quality or the quantity of your life. Almost everything that happens in life happens to everybody. The sun went down on all of us last night, a common event. But...the same thing can happen to two different people and one gets rich and the other stays poor. Why is that? It’s not because what happens, but rather it’s about what you do with what happens. IT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENS, IT’S WHAT YOU DO THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE IN HOW YOUR LIFE WORKS OUT.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“some people don’t do well because they major in minor things? I encourage you to look back at the end of the week, the month, and the end of each year to make sure you’re not spending major time on minor issues or projects. If you are, you are wasting valuable time and will wind up with a below-average life.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“START TODAY TO WORK HARDER ON YOURSELF THAN YOU DO ON YOUR JOB. Work hard to develop skills. Work hard to develop the graces. Work hard to hone all that’s necessary to become more valuable to the marketplace. Then your whole life can explode into positive change. Promotions, no problem. Becoming more valuable to the company, no problem. Money, no problem. Economics, no problem. Future, no problem. Work on yourself.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“Here’s the secret, Mr. Rohn. Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” Once I absorbed the truth in that statement, it turned my life or around. “LEARN TO WORK HARDER ON YOURSELF THAN YOU DO ON YOUR JOB.” He said, “If you work hard on your job, you’ll make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.” Wow. I know you read that previously in the book—but it’s worth reading again. If you knew me at age 25, you would’ve said, “Jim Rohn’s a hard worker. He’s the guy who doesn’t mind going to work a little early and staying a little late.” Although I was a hard worker at my job, I wasn’t working hard on myself—the result? Pennies in my pocket. If you let that simple little principle sink in and start the whole process of personal development by working on yourself, making yourself more valuable in the marketplace, you can dynamically change your income.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“BECOME MORE VALUABLE Why would someone be paid $400 an hour? Because they have become valuable to the marketplace. See how this works? It really is so easy. This is the United States where everyone has the opportunity to climb the ladder. If you work for McDonald’s hauling out the trash, you will be paid $8 an hour. If you whistle while you haul out the trash, you will be paid $9 an hour. You will get an additional dollar just for a good attitude. Learn how to work in the kitchen and you will make more an hour. Train to be a manager and you will earn more money. Decide to buy a McDonald’s franchise, and you are becoming more and more valuable in the marketplace.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“It’s easier to climb that ladder yourself than to wait for a raise. You can become more valuable while you wait. The key to all good things is becoming more valuable—by bettering yourself.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“how do you get paid more money? You make yourself more valuable—”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“SO, WE DON’T GET PAID FOR TIME, WE GET PAID FOR VALUE. Mistakenly, someone may say, “Well, I’m making about $20 an hour.” Not true, not true. If that was true, you could just stay home and have the boss send your money to you. No, that’s not the way it works. You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you put into the hour. So, we don’t get paid for time, we get paid for value. Because that’s true, here’s one of the key questions of the chapter. Is it possible to become twice as valuable and make twice as much money in the same amount of time? Is that possible? Of course it is! All you have to do to earn more money in the same amount of time is simply become more valuable.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“Mr. Shoaff said, “Mr. Rohn, you have pennies in your pocket. You have nothing in the bank. The creditors are calling. You’re behind on your promises.” And he says, “Here’s how that occurs. Up until now, you’ve attracted those circumstances because of the person you’ve become.” I asked, “Well, how can I change all that?” He said, “Very simple. If you change, everything will change for you. You don’t have to change what’s outside. All you have to change is what’s inside. To have more, you simply have to become more.” And then he said, “Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Start working on yourself, making these personal changes—then it will all change for you.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“Mr. Shoaff said, “Mr. Rohn, you have pennies in your pocket. You have nothing in the bank. The creditors are calling. You’re behind on your promises.” And he says, “Here’s how that occurs. Up until now, you’ve attracted those circumstances because of the person you’ve become.” I asked, “Well, how can I change all that?” He said, “Very simple. If you change, everything will change for you. You don’t have to change what’s outside. All you have to change is what’s inside. To have more, you simply have to become more.”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living: Your Guide to Gaining Wealth, Enjoying Happiness, and Achieving Unstoppable Daily Progress

“Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but most importantly, what's your plan to read?”
― Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn