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2166 | Jim Rohn: “If You Want the Things on The Higher Shelf, You’ve Got to Stand on the Books You Read.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today, Jim Rohn shares his story of hitting rock bottom and the life-changing decision that turned his life around.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOD is, if you want the things on the higher shelf, you've got to stand on the books you read.

0:07.0

Here we go.

0:08.0

You know. Welcome back to the quarter of the day show.

0:35.6

I'm your host, Sean Croxon and Sean Croxton.com. We got Jim Rohn on this show to wrap up our week. I'll be honest with you. This clip is a little bit mid, right? It's a 6.5 out of 10. It's not going to blow you away or anything. It's probably a bunch of stuff you heard before. However,

0:55.6

the quote is just too good. The quote is amazing. I was at the coffee shop a couple weeks ago

1:01.1

watching this talk. And when he said this quote, when he said this line, I made a sound because it was

1:08.1

just so good that the young people these days would call this line bars, right?

1:13.6

If I were to write a rap song about reading books, this line would be in it. It's just so good.

1:19.3

If you want the things on the higher shelf, you've got to stand on the books you read. I mean,

1:24.5

who says that? And so it just got me all excited. I, you know me,

1:28.5

I want people to read books. And I think people are actually reading more now. It's become a big

1:33.1

thing on TikTok. Barnes & Noble is actually opening up more stores now. Like, they're actually

1:38.0

expanding instead of contracting because people are starting to read more. And I absolutely

1:43.0

love it. Bringing book club back. So they've been

1:47.0

wondering like, what happened to Book Club? Book Club is coming back in June. It's actually ready to go right

1:52.2

now. It's been ready to go. However, I've been rewriting Money Mind Academy. And so if you took

1:58.2

Money Mind Academy several years ago and you loved it, like this version's

2:02.1

going to be even better. I'm super excited about that. So that's going to launch in mid May. And then we have

2:07.9

the holiday. And then we've got book club. And yeah, I'm pretty excited. Got a lot of cool stuff that I've

2:13.8

been working on for you. And yeah, pretty pumped to launch it. And I'm pretty

2:18.8

pumped about this quote. I've got to say it one more time. If you want the things on the higher

2:23.5

shelf, you've got to stand on the book she read. So good. Jim Rohn's coming up.

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