“As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.”
More from John Maxwell on Leadership
“How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.”
“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
“Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
“Everything rises and falls on leadership.”
“Leadership is influence.”
“The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.”
“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
“Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”
Others on Leadership
Niccolò Machiavelli
10 quotes“A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor.”
Simon Sinek
9 quotes“Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordin...”
Harry Truman
5 quotes“Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.”
Henry Kissinger
5 quotes“The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.”
Lao Tzu
5 quotes“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”
Eisenhower
5 quotes“Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.”
Charles de Gaulle
4 quotes“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.”
Colin Powell
4 quotes“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
Peter F. Drucker
4 quotes“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
Nelson Mandela
3 quotes“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
John D. Rockefeller
3 quotes“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
Norman Schwarzkopf
3 quotes“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, ther...”