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Some of my best thinking is done by others.

John C. Maxwell

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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
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Motivational Speaker
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Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.
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The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow
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If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.
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If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
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Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.
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If your face is going to “talk” for you anyway, you might as well have it communicate something positive.
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It's been said that commitment is another name for success.
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Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
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It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book Think On These Things.
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People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.
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Leaders never outgrow the need to change.
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What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.
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The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle
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Now what I do is I manage that decision. And I teach them in the book how - know what decision to make and then how to manage those decisions. It's a very - it's a personal growth book [Today Matters] that's what it is.
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By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.
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Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.
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The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?
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Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
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When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
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