John C. Maxwell Quotes

The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it's not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.

Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch.

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.

Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

A trustworthy leader goes the extra mile to remedy strained relationships, even when it doesn't appear to be required.

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.