Maintaining Honesty and Integrity
by Jim Rohn
For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of businesspeople don’t realize how closely they’re being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation of all your teacher’s mannerisms. You were aware of the slightest nuances in your teacher’s voice—all the little clues that distinguished levels of meaning that told you the difference between bluff and “now I mean business.”
And you were able to do that after eight or nine months of observation. Suppose you had five or 10 years. Do you think there would have been anything about your teacher…
Vitamins for the Mind
by Jim Rohn
Stewardship
How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn’t matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year, as long as you’ve done the best you can.
The man says, “If I had a fortune, I’d take good care of it. But I only have a paycheck and I don’t know where it all goes.” Wouldn’t you love to have him running your company?
If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there are just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that’s the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed—when there is just a few.
Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.
“Vitamins for the Mind” is a weekly sampling of original quotes on a specific topic taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn. The burgundy hardbound book with gold-foil lettering is a collection of more than 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim’s personal journals, seminars and books and spanning more than 40 years. Click here to order The Treasury of Quotes.
“Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments.” —Jim Rohn
The Maximus Principle
by Chris Widener
The greatest leadership lesson I ever learned is one I call the Maximus principle. I learned it in my own life and then I named it later when I saw the movie Gladiator. At the very beginning of the movie, they’re about to go to war. Maximus, the great leader of one army, is out looking at the other army. He finds that the other army is about to strike, so he needs to strike first. He comes back to his lieutenant and says, “We need to go and start the war.” And the lieutenant starts to say, “The casualties will be too great.” But…
“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
