QUOTES:

PART 1

Recommend a book that helped you set goals. Recommend a book that turns your life around. Recommend a book that created better health. You just passed that along to someone at a Tuesday breakfast, right? And someone later says, "You know that book you recommended? I'm telling you, that started me reading. Then I read another one, and here's what's happened to me. Here's what's happened to me financially, socially, personally. It all goes back two years ago, three years ago, when we had that Tuesday morning breakfast, and you recommended that book." So, it's pretty easy for your name to appear in someone's testimonial.

You never know who may be in your audience. Each individual is important, so if you have a chance to share, here's what's important: always do your best, always be sincere, and always tell as much of your story as you can to help someone else. Because you never know who you're talking to, right? The next person that may be a friend for life, the next person that may be a business associate for a long, long time. So, just have great respect for everybody and then sincerely tell your story, recommend a book, or share an idea.

Some things make sense in English that don't make sense in another language.

Have multiple skills. Learn more than one skill to be prepared for the next century. We've watched people rely on only one skill for the last 15 years. The company got downsized, their division got chopped, right? The guy lost his job, and he's now vulnerable because he only had one skill.

I really revolutionized my whole financial program by learning more than one skill. You know, if a guy that just works on the line for the last 15 years would have taken accounting or something two nights a week, for the last two, three years, he'd have something to fall back on, something extra.

It wouldn't hurt to learn more than one language

I asked a school teacher one time, "How many languages can a child learn?" Here's what she said, "As many as you will teach them. They don't lack the capacity, they don't lack the intelligence, they certainly don't lack the curiosity. All they lack is a teacher."

Here's what civilization is: the restraint of power in its beginning form, and we must start with our own children to civilize our own. We say, "Well, our children live in a civilized society." Yes, but when they're born, soon after, not too long after, they must be restrained. They must be taught what we call civilized behavior.

After the Constitution was written, it didn't seem to be sufficient. Here's what was added to the Constitution: The Bill of Rights. To do what? To protect citizens from the power of their own government.

That's what's made America so unbelievably powerful: the contribution of all the ethnic streams that have been coming here for 200 years. It's incredible.

Hopefully, what the nations will do, instead of fighting each other for what they want, is negotiate. See, if you've got the wheat and I've got the oil, I tried to kill you for your wheat and you try to kill me for my oil. Maybe someday sanity will prevail. Then we sit down and say, "Wait a minute. What if I gave you some of my oil and you gave me some of your wheat? We could spare all this fighting."

Hope for the future of the world in the 21st century is civilized behavior at every level, from our children to the neighborhood to the city, to the state, to the country, and the nations of the world. Competition is what creates new goods and services. Competition creates new ways and means, looking for a way to better serve the public. That kind of competition. So here's what you must be prepared for: opportunity and competition.

I think this is the best time ever in the 6,000-year history of mankind. Best time ever to be alive.

Take what's in my notebook and my notes and get it in your notebook. Take what's in my head and get it in your head. What's in my heart, hopefully, get it in your heart. Then here's what I want you to promise me: that you'll pass it on to somebody else.

With ideas, you can affect the lives directly and indirectly of thousands, tens of thousands, and maybe for some of you, millions of people.

Tony Robbins sat in my seminar when he was 17. He was on the outs with his parents and he was sleeping in his car. Someone got him to come to my seminar aged 17. You never know who is in the audience. He worked for me for three and a half years promoting my seminars, back then called Adventures in Achievement. Three and a half years, finally, he ran one of my offices at age 20 in Los Angeles. Tony Robbins, now, he's a big-time superstar. Bigger superstar than I am around the world. Unbelievable.

I have a vision. Someday, a hundred years from now, when I'm gone, somebody's up in an attic and going through a box of old dusty books. They find one of my books, "Seasons of Life," blow off the dust, and say, "Wow, this is an interesting book." It affects their life, and then maybe they use it as a textbook to teach other people a hundred years from now, after I'm long gone. You know what? This gives me a chance for a little more immortality, to live on in some unique manner long after I'm gone.

The greatest art in the world: the art of parenting.

I'm doing my best to improve and get better. I don't want the day to come when someone says, "You should have heard Jim Rohn ten years ago when he was really terrific." I don't want that to happen. I want someone to say, "Hey, I heard him ten years ago, but you should hear him now."

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can't get more time. When you spend the day, you've got one less day to spend. You don't have an unlimited supply. Sometimes we get faked out just by the language. So, we misuse it, we say, "You know, I got 20 more years." Shut this down: you've got 20 more times. When you say years, it's a little bit of a fake out. If you go fishing once a year, you've only got 20 more times to go fishing.

My family gets excited about the stories of people affected by what I do because they enjoy that part of my life as well.

Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake in saying, "He must be right; he's so sincere." It's possible to be sincerely wrong. The only test of truth is truth.

Here's as close as we can get to the truth as we see it. That's about as close as we can get. You say, "Well, this is absolutely true." No, it's what you think is absolutely true. It's your perception of what might be absolutely true. It's just difficult for any one person to get to the absolute truth. But we all have an idea, we all have a perception. So, I'm gonna try to be as truthful as I possibly can with you today, in my perception of what I think is good. I'm gonna get as close to being totally sincere in believing that I've got something valuable and good. But now, here's the ultimate: each must judge for themselves.

We want things that become useful and practical and that lead us from one step to the next step, that opens the door that may open a wide vista of opportunity we haven't discovered before. That's what we're all looking for.

You've got to listen to the man's point of view, then you've got to listen to the woman's point of view. You've got to listen to the youth's point of view, you've got to listen to the senior citizen's point of view. Because it's like reading a novel. If you read a novel as a teenager, it has certain meanings, certain value. When you get in your twenties and you read the same novel, guess what? You start seeing things you couldn't see as a teenager because it didn't apply then. You read the same novel in your 30s, and I'm telling you, it starts to really change. You're beginning to say, "Now I understand what the author was really trying to show. I can see it now. In my teens, it was a story. In my 30s, it's an application to my life." Then in your 40s and your 50s, all of this starts to change from perspective.

That's one of the advantages of living long enough to look at something at age 50 instead of age 5, to look at something at age 40 instead of age 10. The difference can be magnificent if you continue your self-education so that you learn to appreciate the wide range of what's happening in the world and around you. I probably couldn't have begun to express what I'm going to express to you here 25-30 years ago. I couldn't have done it. I didn't have the vocabulary, didn't have the refinement, didn't have the experience.

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