“Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.”
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John C. Maxwell
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.” —Andrew Carnegie”
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John C. Maxwell
“You cannot enjoy others until you
enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”
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John C. Maxwell
“How do I fit in my area or department? • How do all the departments fit into the organization? • Where does our organization fit in the market? • How is our market related to other industries and the economy?”
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John C. Maxwell
“Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.”
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John C. Maxwell
“People’s minds are changed through observation and not argument.” People”
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John C. Maxwell
“To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself.”
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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
“people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they’re wrong; it’s because they don’t know when to quit.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If a team is to accomplish its goals, it has to know where it stands.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves—to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”
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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
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters.”
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John C. Maxwell
