John C. Maxwell Quotes

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

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

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.

My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.