“Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.”
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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
“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
“When you do well, you think it’s worth it. When you sacrifice so much and you finally do well, it feels really good.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you haven’t yet discovered and developed your style, study other communicators.”
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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
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at”
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John C. Maxwell
“Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie declared, “It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.” To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.”
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John C. Maxwell
“One mistake I’ve seen people repeatedly make is that they focus too much attention on their dream and too little on their team. But the truth is that if you build the right team, the dream will almost take care of itself.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Contrary to popular belief, I consider failure a necessity in business. If you're not failing at least five times a day, you're probably not doing enough. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get. The operative word here is learn. If you repeat the same mistake two or three times, you are not learning from it. You must learn from your own mistakes and from the mistakes of others before you."
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John C. Maxwell
“Influencing others is a matter of disposition, not position.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.”
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John C. Maxwell
