John C. Maxwell Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Vision without execution is delusion.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Resources follow vision.

Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

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

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.