Quotes from John C. Maxwell

I remember looking at myself in the mirror one morning and thinking, I am not a handsome guy. What am I going to do with a face like this? Then I smiled. And I thought, That helps.

Every day I read, write, think, ask questions, and file what I learn. These are the five disciplines I practice to keep improving.

If you've been given a leadership position, then you've been given your boss's permission to lead. If you've earned influence on Level 2, then you have acquired your people's permission to lead. That's powerful.

En el liderazgo, no importa dónde usted esté en la organización, lo más importante es, siempre, la influencia.

Las personas con buenas actitudes tienden a hacer que quienes están a su alrededor se sientan más positivos.

Las personas podrán honrarte por lo que hiciste ayer, pero te respetan por lo que haces ahora. Valoro el ayer, pero vivo hoy.

I hope you live the life you are proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you find the strength to start over again. —THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

An open mind is the beginning of self-discovery and growth. We can't learn anything new until we can admit that we don't already know everything." —Erwin G. Hall

Un líder es grande, no por su poder, sino por su habilidad de hacer surgir poder a otros.

REMIND YOURSELF THAT LEADERSHIP IS A PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

Cuando Dios quiere educar a alguien, no lo envía a la escuela de la gracia sino a la de las necesidades.

El animador Danny Thomas insistía en que «todos hemos nacido por una razón, pero no todos descubrimos el porqué.

many people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. They

Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it's 85 percent people knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe emphasized, "Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

Connectors do the difficult work of keeping it simple.

Where trust is absent, leadership falters.

Am I adding value to people?

It's as the old adage says: motion causes friction.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

It's not what you do that matters as much as what God does through you.

Las únicas semillas que se pierden son las que no se siembran. Él había abrazado la verdad de esta paradoja: lo que uno guarda, lo pierde, y lo que pierde, lo guarda.

The larger the group, the simpler the communication needs to be.

Relacionarse es la aptitud de identificarse y establecer lazos con las personas de un modo tal que aumenta la influencia que se tiene sobre ellas.