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Reasons Come First, Answers Come Second | Jim Rohn | Powerful Motivational Speech

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Reasons Come First, Answers Come Second | Jim Rohn | Powerful Motivational Speech", an episode of WordToTheWise published December 9, 2020 (9 min, about 1,155 words). It mentions 20 people, works and ideas, including Clive Owen, Girl Scout Cookies, Bank Balance, Reasons for Doing Well, Recognition.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Bank Balance, Clive Owen, Family Reason, Millionaire
  2. – 6:00: Andrew Carnegie, Clive Owen, Personal Achievement, Steel Industry
  3. – 9:00: Girl Scout Cookies

Notable quotes from "Reasons Come First, Answers Come Second | Jim Rohn | Powerful Motivational Speech"

  • Reasons see reasons will change your whole life mr shelf said to me said mr owen i think you've got plenty of intelligence you've got plenty of talent you've got plenty of ability probably what you lack is plenty of.
    about Clive Owen · at
  • So reasons make the difference in how your life works out now what are some of the reasons for doing well let's go through a quick list called reasons for doing well first is personal reasons some people do well for recognition.
    about Reasons for Doing Well · at
  • To it they don't get their million right they'd quit they'd quit okay next is family reason some people do extremely well for other people and that's powerful human beings can greatly.
    about Family Reason · at
  • Themselves greatly affected by somebody for personal achievement and we are affected the writer of a recent song said if not for you the winter would hold no spring couldn't.
    about Personal Achievement · at
  • Door and there's a little girl standing there about this tall selling girl scout cookies and she gave me one of the finest sales presentations i've ever heard special deal several flavors this whole.
    about Girl Scout Cookies · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Clive Owen — Person · 2 mentions · first at
  • Andrew Carnegie — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Stimulating reasons to do well finding somebody when andrew carnegie died the wee little scotsman that built the big steel industry when he died they opened up his desk and in one of the desk drawers they found a.
  • Jim Rohn — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

Companies & orgs

Products & tech

Concepts & topics

  • Bank Balance — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Probably what you lack is plenty of reasons he said i don't think your current bank balance is a true indication of your level of intelligence i was happy to hear that he said i think.
  • Reasons for Doing Well — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • Recognition — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Called reasons for doing well first is personal reasons some people do well for recognition some people do well for respect some people do well for the way it makes them feel they love the feeling of being a winner.
  • Respect — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    First is personal reasons some people do well for recognition some people do well for respect some people do well for the way it makes them feel they love the feeling of being a winner those are good reasons.
  • Millionaire — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Those are good reasons i have some millionaire friends that keep working 10 12 hours a day making more millions and it's not because they need the money it's because they need the joy.
  • Family Reason — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • Personal Achievement — Concept · 1 mention · first at
  • Steel Industry — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Somebody when andrew carnegie died the wee little scotsman that built the big steel industry when he died they opened up his desk and in one of the desk drawers they found a slip of paper.
  • Goal Setting — Concept · 1 mention
  • Motivation — Concept · 1 mention
  • Personal Development — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

Full transcript with timestamps

mr shelf put it to me this way he said jim if you had enough reasons you could do the most incredible things i never forgot how he put that if you have enough reasons see reasons will change your whole life mr shelf said to me said mr owen i think you've got plenty of intelligence you've got plenty of talent you've got plenty of ability probably what you lack is plenty of reasons he said i don't think your current bank balance is a true indication of your level of intelligence i was happy to hear that he said i think you're much smarter than your present bank balance indicates and that turned out to be true i was much smarter but of course my first question was well then why isn't it bigger and he said you don't have enough reasons you've got enough intelligence but not enough reasons so see reasons can change your life here's what else i found out reasons come first answers come second

you don't get the answers to do well till you get the reasons life has a mysterious way of hanging on to all the answers and only gives them up to the people that are inspired by reasons so reasons make the difference in how your life works out now what are some of the reasons for doing well let's go through a quick list called reasons for doing well first is personal reasons some people do well for recognition some people do well for respect some people do well for the way it makes them feel they love the feeling of being a winner those are good reasons i have some millionaire friends that keep working 10 12 hours a day making more millions and it's not because they need the money it's because they need the joy and the satisfaction and the pleasure that comes from being a constant winner and see it's not just the money anyway it's the journey not the money once in a while somebody says to me boy

if i had a million dollars i'd never work another day in my life that's probably why the good lord sees to it they don't get their million right they'd quit they'd quit okay next is family reason some people do extremely well for other people and that's powerful human beings can greatly affect each other sometimes we will do things for somebody else we will not do for ourselves we are made that way i met a man one time who said mr owen to do all the things i want to do with my family around the world he said i got to have at least a quarter of a million dollars a year i thought incredible could a guy's family affect him that much and the answer is of course how fortunate are the people that find themselves greatly affected by somebody for personal achievement and we are affected the writer of a recent song said if not for you the winter would hold no spring couldn't hear a robin sing i just wouldn't have a clue if not for

you so we can be affected that might be one of the most stimulating reasons to do well finding somebody when andrew carnegie died the wee little scotsman that built the big steel industry when he died they opened up his desk and in one of the desk drawers they found a slip of paper on that piece of paper mr carnegie had written his goal for his life and he wrote it when he was in his twenties and on that piece of paper it said i'm going to spend the first half of my life accumulating money i'm going to spend the last half of my life giving it all away what a goal he got so inspired by that goal that the first half of his life he accumulated 450 million dollars and the last half of his life he gave it all away good question tonight what's got you turned on what's got you bombed out of sight to get up early and stay up late and hit it all day next question what's got you turned off when i found the answers to those two

questions my life exploded into change i finally found out what had me turned off and i got that cured and then i got me a long enough list of reasons to turn me on and once the lights went on for me age 25 they've never gone out i've fallen out of the sky a few times but i've never lost that drive to make something unique out of my life see reasons altered my whole life now there's another list of reasons called nitty gritty hard little reasons sometimes those little reasons are the most powerful reasons that can change your life sometimes it doesn't take much i now carry several hundred dollars in my money clip it's only a few hundred dollars but it was one of those reasons turned my life around just before i met mr show i heard a knock at the door i go to the door and there's a little girl standing there about this tall selling girl scout cookies and she gave me one of the finest sales presentations i've ever

heard special deal several flavors this whole package of stuff two dollars and with a big smile she very politely asked me to buy and i wanted to big problem i'm broke i don't have two dolls and to this day i can remember the pain and the embarrassment i'm a father i'm a husband i've been to college i'm working i'm 25. i don't have two dollars and i didn't want to tell her that for some reason so i did what i thought was next best i lied to i said hey look i've already bought lots of girl scout cookies i've still got plenty stacked in the house which was not true but it seemed to get me off the hook for the moment she said well gosh that's wonderful thank you very much and she went away when she left i closed the door and that was the day i said to myself i don't want to live like this anymore i've had it with lion and i've had it with being broke i'm never gonna let this happen to me ever again

i promised that day i would work as hard as possible and would always carry plenty it took me a little while but now i do it was one of those reasons and i guess i carry plenty for two reasons one is the way it makes me feel but also in case i bump into another girl scout selling cookies right i'm ready

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Questions about this episode

What is discussed in "Reasons Come First, Answers Come Second | Jim Rohn | Powerful Motivational Speech"?

In order: 0:00 Bank Balance, Clive Owen, Family Reason, Millionaire; 3:00 Andrew Carnegie, Clive Owen, Personal Achievement, Steel Industry; 6:00 Girl Scout Cookies.

What is mentioned in this WordToTheWise episode?

20 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Clive Owen, Girl Scout Cookies, Bank Balance, Reasons for Doing Well, Recognition, Respect. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Reasons Come First, Answers Come Second | Jim Rohn | Powerful Motivational Speech"?

The episode runs 9 min; the transcript is about 1,155 words in 8 timestamped sections.

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About this transcript: the episode's spoken words as captioned on YouTube, split into timestamped sections. Reclip.Me locates every person, work and idea in the text, keeps the time it is first named, and quotes the words around it verbatim. Last updated November 15, 2025.