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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
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Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
John C. Maxwell
Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.
John C. Maxwell
There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.
John C. Maxwell
I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership is the dream made reality.
John C. Maxwell
Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.
John C. Maxwell
Some of my best thinking is done by others.
John C. Maxwell
To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.
John C. Maxwell
Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.
John C. Maxwell
People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
John C. Maxwell
Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
John C. Maxwell
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.
John C. Maxwell
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
John C. Maxwell
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
John C. Maxwell
Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.
John C. Maxwell
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
John C. Maxwell
If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.
John C. Maxwell
Thinking is hard that's why so few do it.
John C. Maxwell
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
John C. Maxwell
Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.
John C. Maxwell
