Quotes from John C. Maxwell

Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." -John C. Maxwell

People with humility don't think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.

Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to Be Succeeded

People don't care how much you know unless you know how much you care

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

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.

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. —JOHN C. MAXWELL

When people respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they follow you.

If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had!

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.

Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?