“What’s true for a teammate is also true for the leader: If you don’t grow, you gotta go.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“what gets rewarded gets done. If you praise and honor the people who epitomize the values of the team, those values get embraced and upheld by other members of the team. There is no better reinforcement.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“When we’re more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly. Mistakes become failures when we continually respond to them incorrectly.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“You don’t really understand people until you hear their life story. If you know their stories, you grasp their history, their hurts, their hopes and aspirations. You put yourself in their shoes. And just by virtue of listening and remembering what’s important to them, you communicate that you care and desire to add value.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Life is pretty much a selling job. Whether we succeed or fail is largely a matter of how well we motivate the human beings with whom we deal to buy us and what we have to offer. Success”
―
John C. Maxwell
“We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed
Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to Be Succeeded”
―
John C. Maxwell
“You have to link what you want to say to what others’ needs are.”
―
John C. Maxwell