Quotes from John C. Maxwell

A Jeff Danziger cartoon shows a company president announcing to his staff, "Gentlemen, this year the trick is honesty." From one side of the conference table, a vice president gasps, "Brilliant." Across the table, another VP mutters, "But so risky.

The main reason we weren't making progress is when focusing on people's weaknesses. If you want to develop people, you must help them discover and build upon their strengths. That's where people have the most potential to grow.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively." Talent isn't enough. Experience isn't enough. To lead others, you must be able to communicate well, and connecting is key.

As Hall of Fame basketball coach John Wooden said, "When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.

ASK NO MORE OF OTHERS THAN YOU ARE ASKING OF YOURSELF.

But people of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener. For example, when Lyndon B. Johnson was a junior senator from Texas, he kept a sign on his office wall that read, "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're doin' all the talkin'." And Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth American president, once said, "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Are we quick to respond to others' needs? Do we run from problems or face them? Do we talk more about bad news or good news? Do we give people the benefit of the doubt, or do we assume the worst? The

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

Ignorance means we didn't have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others . . . it is the only thing.

La experiencia no garantiza la credibilidad, pero motiva a las personas a dar la oportunidad de probar que se es capaz.

V. Gilbert Beers says, "A person of integrity is one who has established a system of values against which all of life is judged." Integrity is not what we do so much as who we are. And who we are, in turn, determines what we do. Our

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

As Nobel prize– winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted, "The meaning of earthly existing lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

Livingstone replied, "If you have men who will come only if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all." That's what top leaders want from the people working for them: they want individuals who are willing to do what others won't.

leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, they did it." That's

La mayor parte de las personas buscan la excepción en vez de ser excepcionales.

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired. Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

Decida qué hacer y hágalo; decida qué no hacer y no lo haga». La evaluación de prioridades, sin embargo, no es tan sencilla. Muchas veces las opciones no son blancas o negras, sino de muchos tonos grises. He descubierto que lo último que uno sabe es qué debe

But here's the good news: maintaining the right attitude is easier than regaining the right attitude.

Vision and mission are the head and the heart of people. But values are their soul.

And nothing is more effective when it comes to reaching potential than commitment to personal growth.