“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.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“greatest enemy to tomorrow’s success is sometimes today’s success.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Dale Carnegie was a master at identifying potential leaders. Once asked by a reporter how he had managed to hire forty-three millionaires, Carnegie responded that the men had not been millionaires when they started working for him. They had become millionaires as a result. The reporter next wanted to know how he had developed these men to become such valuable leaders. Carnegie replied, “Men are developed the same way gold is mined. Several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold. But you don’t go into the mine looking for dirt,” he added. “You go in looking for the gold.” That’s exactly the way to develop positive, successful people. Look for the gold, not the dirt; the good, not the bad. The more positive qualities you look for, the more you are going to find.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“The longest distance between two points is a shortcut.” That’s really true. For everything of value in life, you pay a price.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Success for the leader is a single victory. However, when the protégé experiences success, it becomes a double win.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Las personas se están preparando para el éxito cuando deberían estarse preparando para el fracaso. Fracasar es mucho más común que triunfar; la pobreza está más generalizada que la riqueza; y la desilusión es más normal que los logros.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Crisis doesn’t necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it. Adversity”
―
John C. Maxwell
“People who think they’re leading but have no one following them are only taking a walk.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“The main point is that it’s the speaker’s responsibility to bring energy to the audience and to work to activate them.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.”
―
John C. Maxwell
