“If you don't have influence, you will never be able to lead others.”
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John C. Maxwell
“A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem. It's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.”
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John C. Maxwell
“believe leadership is servanthood. It’s my responsibility to make sure my people have what they need to succeed and get their work done.”
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John C. Maxwell
“how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Most people who don’t feel content with their lives don’t know the reason why. Often they suspect that circumstances or other people are to blame. Even honest and self-aware individuals who know the problem lies inside of them still may have trouble getting to the root of the issue. They ask themselves, “Why am I this way?” They desire to change, but they don’t do anything differently so that they can change. They merely hope things will turn out all right—and they become frustrated when they don’t. Recognize that only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right in your life.”
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John C. Maxwell
“greatest enemy to tomorrow’s success is sometimes today’s success.”
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John C. Maxwell
“people with a positive attitude focus their time and attention on solutions, not problems.”
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John C. Maxwell
“There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don’t add value, then the whole team gets better. It’s just like trimming trees: If you don’t cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there’s room for productive new branches on the tree.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust.”
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John C. Maxwell
“When it comes to the thing you love to do, the thing you were made to do, aim high. The odds matter little. Whether you fall down along the way matters little.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.”
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John C. Maxwell
“60 percent of all management problems are the result of faulty communications.”
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John C. Maxwell
