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“Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“a smart person believes only half of what he hears, but a really smart person knows which half to believe.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“If we despise the position we have, it may be because of what I call “destination disease,” which can also be called the greener grass syndrome. If we focus on being some other place because we think it’s better, then we will neither enjoy where we are nor do what we must to succeed. 3.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“It’s easier to move from failure to success than from excuses to success.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“To become a 360-Degree Leader, you will have to pay a price. You will have to give up other opportunities in order to lead. You will have to sacrifice some personal goals for the sake of others. You will have to get out of your comfort zone and do things you’ve never done before. You will have to keep learning and growing when you don’t feel like it. You will have to repeatedly put others ahead of yourself. And if you desire to be a really good leader, you will have to do these things without fanfare or complaint.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. It doesn’t mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.”
― Greg Mckeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.”
― Greg Mckeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance? What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Essentialists see trade-offs as an inherent part of life, not as an inherently negative part of life. Instead of asking, “What do I have to give up?” they ask, “What do I want to go big on?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“If it isn’t a clear yes, then it’s a clear no.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter or the way we look in our Facebook photos. As a result, we neglect activities that are truly essential, like spending time with our loved ones, or nurturing our spirit, or taking care of our health.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the nonessentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Just because I was invited didn’t seem a good enough reason to attend.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“A popular idea in Silicon Valley is “Done is better than perfect.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“What do I feel deeply inspired by?” and “What am I particularly talented at?” and “What meets a significant need in the world?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“the killer question: “If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“the pursuit of success can be a catalyst for failure. Put another way, success can distract us from focusing on the essential things that produce success in the first place.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“You can do anything but not everything”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“What if society stopped telling us to buy more stuff and instead allowed us to create more space to breathe and think? What if society encouraged us to reject what has been accurately described as doing things we detest, to buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like?11”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less