John Maxwell Quotes

160 John Maxwell Quotes

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Change the leader – change the organization.
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Change equals growth.
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When you’re through changing, you’re through.
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Change creates fear of the unknown.
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Change creates fear of failure.
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Change won’t happen when people engage in negative thinking.
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Narrow-mindedness thwarts acceptance of new ideas.
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Tradition resists change.
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Early adopters are those who know a good idea when they see it.
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Middle adopters are the majority.
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Late adopters are the last group to endorse an idea.
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Laggards are always against change.
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The leader must develop a trust with people.
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The leader must make personal changes before asking others to change.
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Good leaders understand the history of the organization.
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Place influencers in leadership positions.
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Good leaders solicit the support of influencers before the change is made public.
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Encourage the influencers to influence others informally.
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Not all change is improvement, but without change there can be no improvement.
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It’s never too late to change.
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We all have problems.
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The size of the person is more important than the size of the problem.
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People need to change their perspectives, not their problems.
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Problems give meaning to life.
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Always take the high road.
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Many outstanding people have overcome problems in their lives.
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My problem is not my problem.
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A problem is something I can do something about.
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A test of a leader is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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You can judge leaders by the size of the problems they tackle.
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Our attitudes are our most important assets.
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Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.
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Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.
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It is improbable that a person with a bad attitude can continuously be a success.
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We cannot continue to function in a manner that we do not truly believe about ourselves.
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A leader’s attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.
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We are responsible for our attitudes.
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It’s not what happens to me that matters but what happens in me.
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The leader’s attitude helps determine the attitudes of the followers.
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The one who influences others to lead is a leader without limitations.
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