John C. Maxwell Quotes

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

Adaptability is key.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Don't get stuck on a business plan just because it was your business plan.

I am used to changing tactics to adapt to the climate.

If you see that something is not working, you have to be willing to change course.

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.

The game changes so quickly, and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.

Everybody has to take curveballs as they come in life and hopefully have the ability to adjust their plans.

When you get down, your game plan changes a lot and what you're trying to do is eliminated.

If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight.

Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.

High performance people take action quickly and change their mind slowly!

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.