“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
“Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Thnk things through-then follow through.”
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John C. Maxwell
“leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker’s main responsibility is developing others to do the work
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John C. Maxwell
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
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John C. Maxwell
“No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn’t the leader above us—it’s the spirit within us.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less. If you are being salt and light as Jesus commanded, then you have begun to obey God’s call to leadership.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?”
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John C. Maxwell
“When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do
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John C. Maxwell
“Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don’t add value, then the whole team gets better. It’s just like trimming trees: If you don’t cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there’s room for productive new branches on the tree.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If the reaction is worse than the action, the problem usually increases. If the reaction is less than the action, the problem usually decreases.”
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John C. Maxwell
