“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
“Charismatic people not only want to win, they want others to win too. That creates productivity.”
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John C. Maxwell
“I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what’s really important and what isn’t. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, “When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.”
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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
“What’s worse than training your people and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.”
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John C. Maxwell
“German poet Herman Hesse wrote, “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” I agree with his viewpoint.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Crisis doesn’t necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks.”
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John C. Maxwell
“THE LAW OF COUNTABILITY Teammates Must Be Able to Count on Each Other When It Counts”
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John C. Maxwell
“Former US president Woodrow Wilson said, “If you want to make enemies, change something.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.”
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John C. Maxwell
