“You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Many people fail to make a difference because they are so busy.
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John C. Maxwell
“One of the paradoxes of life is that the things that initially make you successful are rarely the things that keep you successful.”
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John C. Maxwell
“As a leader, you should not be trying to carry everything yourself. To be successful, you must share the load. But you must have highly capable people to hand things off to.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Al preguntar cómo podemos maximizar nuestras experiencias, les sacamos el mayor provecho.”
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John C. Maxwell
“the strength of the team is impacted by its weakest link.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it enough.”
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John C. Maxwell
“I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Preparation (growth) + Attitude + Opportunity + Action (doing something about it) = Luck”
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John C. Maxwell
“One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Think, Act, Talk, and Conduct Yourself Like the Person You Want to Become”
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John C. Maxwell
“If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” —Martin Luther King Jr.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The question is not, “Will my calendar be full?” but “Who will fill my calendar?” If we are leaders of others, the question is not, “Will I see people?” but “Who will I see?
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John C. Maxwell
