John C. Maxwell Quotes

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

You need a strong, tough leader to restore America's greatness. This is the best person to do that.

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.

Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

No institution will be better than the institutor.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Putin is a better leader than Obama, because Obama's not a leader, so he's certainly doing a better job than Obama is, and that's all.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.