“If you make it your discipline to do a little bit of growing every day, in just a few years you will be amazed by your transformation.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You lose the respect of the best when you don’t deal properly with the worst.”
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John C. Maxwell
“distinct vision, a precise plan, plenty of resources, and incredible leadership, but if you don’t have the right people, you’re not going to get anywhere.”
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John C. Maxwell
“And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Leaders see everything with a leadership bias. Their focus is on mobilizing people and leveraging resources to achieve their goals rather than on using their own individual efforts. Leaders who want to succeed maximize every asset and resource they have for the benefit of their organization. For that reason, they are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.”
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John C. Maxwell
“most people overrate decision making, and they underrate decision managing.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Productive leaders communicate the superiority and the benefits of their ideas.”
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John C. Maxwell
“People don't care how much you know unless you know how much you care”
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John C. Maxwell
“the leader’s prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: “God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.”
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John C. Maxwell
“What you are speaks so loudly that I can’t hear what you say.” —RALPH WALDO EMERSON”
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John C. Maxwell
“Those who lack humility are dogmatic and egotistical. That masks a deep sense of insecurity.”
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John C. Maxwell
“I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Believe while others are doubting. Plan while others are playing. Study while others are sleeping. Decide while others are delaying. Prepare while others are daydreaming. Begin while others are procrastinating. Work while others are wishing. Save while others are wasting. Listen while others are talking. Smile while others are frowning. Commend while others are criticizing. Persist while others are quitting.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You have to link what you want to say to what others’ needs are.”
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John C. Maxwell
