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you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.
- John Maxwell
Education makes all the difference.
- John Maxwell
Failure is inevitable; learning is optional
- John Maxwell
The only person who avoids failure altogether is the person who never leaves her driveway. So the real issue is not whether you're going to fail. It's whether you're going to fail successfully (profiting from your failure).
- John Maxwell
Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.
- John Maxwell
Being willing to give up some of the things you love in order to focus on what has the greatest impact isn't an easy lesson to learn. But the earlier you embrace it, the sooner you can dedicate yourself to excellence in what matters most.
- John Maxwell
Ignorance means we didn't have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.
- John Maxwell
Experience alone isn't a good enough teacher — evaluated experience is.
- John Maxwell
The writer of Proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.
- John Maxwell
Get a new definition of failure. Regard it as the price you pay for progress. If you can do that, you will put yourself in a much better position to fail forward.
- John Maxwell
If you really want to achieve your dreams—I mean really achieve them, not just daydream or talk about them—you've got to get out there and fail. Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward. Turn your mistakes into stepping-stones for success.
- John Maxwell
Let me help you by telling you something you need to know. You won't do well the first time you do anything. You don't know what you're doing when you start. Nobody is good at the beginning of doing something new. Get over it.
- John Maxwell