Top 40 Rory Vaden Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.”

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2. “There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.”

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3. “Creating the next level of results requires the next level of thinking.”

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4. “Success means doing things you don’t want to do.”

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5. “Discipline is a choice. It’s simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.”

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6. “Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.”

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7. “You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.”

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8. “Time is not money. Time is worth way more than money.”

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9. “One of the biggest ways we lose time is not knowing where we’re going next.”

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10. “The reason we don’t get what we want isn’t because we don’t have the ability or time. We aren’t willing to do the things we need to do when we don’t feel like doing them. There’s an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.”

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11. “You always get paid for how hard you work, but it’s not always right away.”

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12. “Let go of who’s right and focus on what’s right.”

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13. “Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don’t own your situation.”

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14. “Successful people have all had to do things they didn’t feel like doing in order to get where they are.”

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15. “It’s okay to be scared – do it scared. It’s okay to be unsure – do it unsure. It’s okay to be uncomfortable – do it uncomfortable. Just get started where you are. That is the attitude of the most disciplined and successful people on the planet. You.”

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16. “Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.”

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17. “Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.”

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18. “We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.”

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19. “The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we’re going to do.”

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20. “Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don’t have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they’re okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.”

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21. “Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.”

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22. “Success comes down to choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Consistently.”

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23. “Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest.”

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24. “When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no.”

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25. “Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.”

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26. “Do things you don’t want to do because it is the shortest, most guaranteed path to success: what you want in your life. It’s not about getting a certain amount of money or a certain type of house, but what you want your life to look like.”

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27. “There is always an incredible amount of things vying for our attention at home. I’m not saying you should never do the laundry, or pay attention to the kids, but for most of us, we’re not present to how much time we spend on those. Anything that wastes your time is a waste of money.”

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28. “Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.”

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29. “If you’re like most people in the world today, then you have read fewer than five books cover to cover in your lifetime. According to one major American publisher, 95% of all books that are purchased are never completely read.”

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30. “You are much more likely to act your way into healthy thinking than to think your way into healthy acting.”

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31. “The number one risk that rich people are willing to take is to be paid for their results rather than or in addition to their time. They choose to take a chance on themselves. They believe in their own self-discipline and their own ability to produce results.”

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32. “Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don’t feel like doing it?”

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33. “Why do so many of us succumb to fear? Because it’s more convenient and more comfortable for us to let our dreams disappear than to muster up the discipline and the work ethic to go out and transform them into reality.”

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34. “The franchise model is great, because most people who are entrepreneurial want flexibility and time to do what they love. A lot home business entrepreneurs struggle because they have to do everything.”

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35. “Ignore the noise. Conquer the critical. Manage the minutiae.”

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36. “Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.”

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37. “You were put here on earth to do something that no one else can do. It is yours and yours alone to complete. It requires you to be your highest self and if you don’t do that thing, you are going to inhibit those around you from doing theirs. As a Multiplier, it is your obligation to spend time on things today that create more opportunity for those around you tomorrow. It is to do the things that are right, not only for now, but for the future.”

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38. “And the Law of Action says that it does not matter what we say we believe; our real beliefs are revealed by how we act. You.”

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39. “Action is the cure for fear. I.”

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40. “Which brings us to the Pain Paradox of decision making that states the short-term easy leads to the long-term difficult, while the short-term difficult leads to the long-term easy.”

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41. “Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals.”

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42. “It’s not even right to complain or whine to others about how busy you are. You and I have the same amount of time in a day as Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Michael Jordan or anyone else who has achieved greatness.”

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43. “Because in our never-ending search for the next destination, we miss out on one of life’s great truths, which is, just as the legendary philosopher Hannah Montana said, “It’s all about the climb.”

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44. “If there isn’t a defined objective or outcome for the activities you’re engaged in, stop doing them!”

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45. “Discipline is a perpetual process, and the growth is in the journey. Simple, but here’s the part that you won’t like hearing – you don’t get a day off. Ever.”

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