"Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...." - Quote by John C Maxwell
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
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“I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.”
“I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.”
“I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."”
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“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
“As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.If you keep learning, you'll improve.If you improve, your leadership will get better.And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.”
“The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.”
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“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”
“The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.”
“The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.”