John C. Maxwell

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why should anyone else?

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God’s sake.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

The very essence of leadership is having vision.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team, and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

Most great leaders in history that I’ve studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

In real life, if I were firing you, I’d tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that’s different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It’s not a very pleasant thing. I don’t like firing people.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That’s how you build a first-class operation.