Jim Rohn

If someone would have asked me at age 25, Mr. Rohn, how come you're not doing well?

Pennies in your pocket, creditors calling, nothing in the bank.

behind on your promises to your family.

You live in America, 25 years old, got a beautiful family, every reason to do well, and things are not going that well for you.

What is wrong here?

It would not have occurred to me to blame my philosophy.

I mean, it would not have occurred to me.

Well, I got this lousy philosophy and that's how come I got pennies in my pocket and nothing in the bank and things aren't working well.

That would not have occurred to me.

I found it much easier to blame the government.

Much easier to blame the tax problem.

I used to say taxes are too high.

Top tax rate when I first started paying taxes, 91%.

Back then, when your income reached a certain level, all your income over that, 91%.

So I used to say that's too high.

Hi, now the top tax rate's about 33%, but people are still saying, what, taxes are too?

See, but you can't use that anymore.

If it's gone from 91 to 33, how could it be too high?

Come on.

I threw all that old excuse stuff away.