Rory Vaden Quotes

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

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.51, Penguin
  • Creating the next level of results requires the next level of thinking.

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.13, Penguin
  • There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.25, Penguin
  • Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.15, Penguin
  • 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.

  • 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?

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.22, Penguin
  • 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.

  • 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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  • Let go of who's right and focus on what's right

  • Successful people have all had to do things they didn't feel like doing in order to get where they are.

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.13, Penguin
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.83, Penguin
  • Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.113, Penguin
  • Procrastinatio n and indulgence are nothing more than creditors who charge us interest.

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.14, Penguin
  • Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.121, Penguin
  • We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.

  • The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

  • A lot of "successful" people are tragedies, because what they've accomplished aren't the things they wanted. Intentionally create the question "how" instead of accidentally relenting to the question of "should." If I'm not intentionally choosing a good attitude, I'm almost always unintentionally choosing a negative one.

  • Success means doing things you don't want to do.

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    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.151, Penguin
  • 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.

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.45, Penguin
  • Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.37, Penguin
  • Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.

  • The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.

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

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.39, Penguin
  • 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.

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

  • Time is not money. Time is worth way more than money.

    Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.63, Penguin
  • Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.

    Interview with John O'Leary, johnolearyinspires.com. June 16, 2014.
  • You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.107, Penguin
  • The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

    Rory Vaden (2012). “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”, p.53, Penguin
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