40 Quotes From John Maxwell’s The Leader’s Greatest Return Digital Training Taping

Dr. John Maxwell recently released his new book The Leader’s Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, And Multiplying Leaders.  In my opinion, it is his best book since the iconic The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You.

This past week I had the privilege of being invited to a taping of the book’s upcoming accompanying digital training product.  It will be a 10-module course, one module for each chapter.  John taught and filmed the book’s final eight chapters.

This event had very special meeting for me.  John is my spiritual hero and I had the privilege of working for him from 2002-2008.  He has impacted my life more than anyone except my actual father.  Pictured above is me getting a chance to reunite with my hero.  So trust me when I say, The Leader’s Greatest Return is an all-timer!  Get your copy TODAY by clicking HERE.

Now as resource to everyone reading this site, the following are 40 Quotes From John Maxwell’s The Leader’s Greatest Return Digital Training Taping.  I hope you enjoy them.

1. On May 4, 2004 Coca-Cola CEO Neville Isdell began his leadership with a 100-day listening tour.
2. Don’t give directions.  Ask good questions.
3. The #1 mess-up is a leader leading by assumption.
4. The more people you lead the more you have to listen because you are farther away from the front lines.
5. The compliment is to ask a person’s opinion.
6. A great man is summed up in one sentence.
7. Loneliness is crossing the finish line alone.
8. “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to de better.” – Pat Riley
9. Few leaders are developed in survival environments.
10. They can’t do without you unless you train them to do without you.
11. Only good leaders can work themselves out of a job.
12. Only be promoted when you’ve worked yourself out of a job… No vacancies… Then you still stay in your sweet spot.
13. The greatness of a leader is they are indispensable.  It is when they don’t need you that they need you.
14. To give power away you must first have it.
15. 90% of leaders never develop leaders.
16. If you give continual results, then I’ll empower you.
17. Silence isn’t golden.  It’s deadly.
18. Who you learn from is as important as what you are learning.
19. Many mentors teach but aren’t contagious.  Teaching is what I know.  Mentoring is who you are.  Mentor a life, not a lesson.
20. Mentor in two areas – Your strengths and your essentials.
21. When picking mentors, specialize.
22. One mentor is not enough.
23. Attitude only works for you in adversity.
24. The only value to learning is improving.
25. When mentoring, make yourself unforgettable.
26. The depth of mentoring is determined by vulnerability… When the growth stops, the mentoring stops.
27. Anticipation, not discipline, causes me to write every day.
28. The first time I read I mark the book.  The second time I read the book marks me.
29. Nothing works better than leaders developing leaders.
30. There’s no finish line in leadership.
31. The only thing that separates fast-food restaurants is how they treat people. – Dan Cathy
32. Sponsors are more valuable than mentors.
33. They (the audience) applaud your gifts.  They don’t know you… You didn’t earn the gift.  It was given to you.
34. If I invest in those who come behind me, they’ll do greater than I ever did.
35. Being 1% better every day yields exponential results.
36. When you can finally afford to quit, you can’t afford to quit.
37. Age is automatic.  Growth is not.
38. If you can’t come to the bench exhausted, get back in the game.
39. I’ve met a lot of unhappy successful people.  I’ve never met an unhappy significant person.
40. Don’t quit.  The greatest compounding comes near the end, just when many people quit.

What is one thing you learned from Dr. Maxwell which will make you a better leader?

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