Leadership 101

• The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.
• What matters most is what you do day by day over the long haul.
• If they had known that leadership is influence, and that in the course of each day most individuals usually try to influence at least four other people, their desire might have been sparked to learn more about the subject.
• To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
• When you recognize your lack of skill and begin the daily discipline of personal growth in leadership, exciting things start to happen.
• The first person you lead is you.
• Once you get into the mode of quitting you feel that it’s okay.
• Challenge your excuses.
• Anytime you concentrate on the difficulty of the work instead of its results or rewards, you’re likely to become discouraged.
• Success can be defined as the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.
• It’s not how hard you work; it’s how smart you work.
• A life in which anything goes will ultimately be a life in which nothing goes.
• The question is not “will my calendar be full?” but “Who will fill my calendar?”
• Leaders tend to initiate and followers tend to react.
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
• The good is the enemy of the best.
• The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
• You can’t get too much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
• You can seize only what you can see or believe.
• True vision is far-reaching. It goes beyond what one individual can accomplish.
• Relationships are forged, not formed. They require time and common experience.
• Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and is important to someone. Invariably, people will give their love, respect, and attention to the person who fills that need.
• If you want to go up, there are things you must be willing to give up.
• Pay the price today to assure success tomorrow.

Source: Leadership 101 by John C. Maxwell