John C. Maxwell Quotes

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 ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

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

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

Never hesitate to show your own staff that you need help. They need to be reminded how important they are to the process. In life and in business, we rely on each other to be responsible for individual tasks that benefit everyone. People sometimes forget how much interdependence there really is in a successful business. Learn the art of asking for help to empower and motivate others, and you will have learned a very powerful management strategy.

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

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

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

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

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

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.

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

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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