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Collaboration is multiplication.

Collaboration is multiplication.

John C. Maxwell
Teamwork, Collaboration, Multiplication

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.

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Dream, Motivation, Goal
John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

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Motivational, Leadership, Real
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

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Leadership, Vision, Alive

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

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Leadership, Exercise, Long

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

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Leadership, Holiday, Journey

Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

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Opportunity, Missing, Might

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

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Positive, Thinking, Challenges
John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

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Leadership, Littles, Picks

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

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Leadership, Book, College

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

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Leadership, Thinking, Hard

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.

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Leadership
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

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Leadership, People, Training
John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.13, Harper Collins

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

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Leadership, Letting Go, Team
John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

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Character, Talent, Outstanding
John C. Maxwell (2001). “Developing the Leader Within You Workbook”, p.219, Thomas Nelson Inc

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

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Attitude, Bad Attitude, Selfishness
John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.115, Thomas Nelson Inc

Usually the person who rises within an organization has a good attitude. The promotions did not give that individual an outstanding attitude, but an outstanding attitude resulted in promotions.

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Attitude, Organization, Giving
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.18, Harper Collins

Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

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Attitude, Differences, Making A Difference
John C. Maxwell (2006). “The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team.

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Dream, Team, Nightmare

The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

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Loyalty, Leader, Groups
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

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Winning, Ideas, Doe
John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It's all in these pages. The Compound Effect is a clear and concise success operation manual!

John C. Maxwell
Book, Want, Pages

A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

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Art, Greatness, Thinking
John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

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Teacher, Leader, Best Teacher
John C. Maxwell (2012). “Defining Moments Define Your Leadership: Lesson 3 from Leadership Gold”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

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Leader, Fifty, Steps
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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