Quotes from John C. Maxwell

Where Are You Holding Up Your Team? If you are not asking the members of your team how you can serve them, you may be holding them up. To find out, go to each team member individually and ask, "What could I do for you that would make your job easier, make you more successful, and make the team better?" Listen without interrupting to what people have to say, and then try to figure out ways to do what you can to serve them.

Las palabras amables pueden ser cortas y fáciles de expresar, pero sus ecos son infinitos" —Madre Teresa

Jim Rohn's comment: "Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.

Ayude a muchas personas a tener éxito, y usted también lo tendrá».

Cuando está interesado en algo, lo hace sólo cuando le conviene. Cuando está comprometido con algo, no acepta excusas, sino sólo resultados

A person who cannot sacrifice will never belong to himself; he belongs to whatever he was unwilling to give up. If you want to develop maturity and gain the value of learning, you need to learn to give up some things today for greater gains tomorrow.

A leader with confidence is a leader who brings out positive changes in people.

If you haven't yet discovered and developed your style, study other communicators.

People need your influence, but it will not come through 'lip syncing' those you admire.

If you've done something for one year—look at it carefully. If you've done it for two years—look at it with suspicion. If you've done it for five years—stop looking at it and do something to change it.

For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

Occasionally someone will ask me about how ego fits into the leadership equation. They'll want to know what keeps a leader from having a huge ego. I think the answer lies in each leader's pathway to leadership. If people paid their dues and gave their best in obscurity, ego is usually not a problem.

Everyone starts out bad, regardless of what they're practicing for. We start so we can improve. We start before we're ready because we need and want to get better. The idea is to deliver our best each time we try until one day, we become good. And then one day, we may even have a chance to be great. That's growth. But we can't evolve if we don't start.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership, on the other hand, has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

If you want to be successful as a person and as a leader, you must make choices. You must prioritize. You cannot have it all. No one can.

The greatest enemy of tomorrow's success is yesterday's success. —RICK WARREN

The only thing worse than not having a way to capture great ideas, and thus missing them, is capturing a bad idea and trying to make it work.

you can care about people without leading them, but you cannot lead people well without caring about them.

Uno no puede enemistarse con las personas e influir en ellas al mismo tiempo».

The unfortunate truth is that many of us, instead of offering total forgiveness, pray something like this Irish Prayer: May those who love us, love us; And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we'll know them by their limping. People

There's no such thing as business ethics—there's only ethics.

The more you do to go beyond words, the greater the chance you will connect with people.

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings.