John Quotes

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.

Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.

In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

It is the leader's job to hold hope high.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

My own journey started long before I left, and was over before I returned.

The human is the only guilty animal.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.