Jim Rohn on America, Government, and Politics It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak. One of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started. Liberal. And the other to help maintain its structure over the years. Conservative. The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people. Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers. An ancient script asks, “Would you let a man rule the city who cannot even rule his own spirit?" Sometimes we do. In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts been brought from all over the world and deposited in one country. Debate refines a good idea. That's why we have two major parties in congress. Somebody says, "I have a great idea for the country. We say, ‘Wonderful. Put it on the table. Let's debate.'" And we start the debate by questioning the guy who has this great idea. After the third question he says, "I withdraw my great idea. I forgot about those three questions. " Succeeding in America is easy! That's why everyone wants to come here. People haven't plotted and schemed for the last fifty years saying, "If I could just get to Poland everything would be okay. " Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

Jim Rohn Quotes on Leadership and Management The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude. Be kind but not weak. Be bold but not a bully. Be thoughtful but not lazy. Be humble but not timid. Be proud but not arrogant. Have humor but without folly. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Faith without discipline serves no useful purpose. Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least. My mentor said, "Let's go do it" not "You go do it." How powerful when someone says, "Lets!" Good people are found, not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, "We don't teach our people to be nice. We simply hire nice people." Wow! What a clever shortcut. 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. In leadership we teach don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help. A duck finishes eagle school, sees his first rabbit, and makes him a friend. If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments. Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It is not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out. Learn to help people with more than just their jobs. Help them with their lives.