John C. Maxwell Quotes

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

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The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.