How Successful People Think Quotes

“Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, “The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.” The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“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.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you’ve never had!”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Instead of trying to be great, be part of something greater than yourself.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“You could use the 80/20 rule. Give 80 percent of your effort to the top 20 percent (most important) activities. Another way is to focus on exceptional opportunities that promise a huge return. It comes down to this: give your attention to the areas that bear fruit.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo’s scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare’s Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can’t point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it’s the entire work—all the pieces working together to create an overall effect—that leads to enduring greatness.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“It is true: most people are more satisfied with old problems than committed to finding new solutions.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“you can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Earlier in my life, I have to admit, I was often guilty of this error. I wanted to take an idea from seed thought to solution before sharing it with anyone, even the people it would most impact. I did this both at work and at home. But over the years, I have learned that you can go much farther with a team than you can go alone.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all.” —Kevin Myers”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.” —Donald M. Nelson”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That’s good because if you’re young you’re still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you’ve wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that I was working on this book and I asked him if he made thinking time a high priority. Not only did he say yes, but he told me about what he calls his “thinking schedule.” It helps him to fight the hectic pace of life that discourages intentional thinking. Dan says he sets aside time just to think for half a day every two weeks, for one whole day every month, and for two or three full days every year. Dan explains, “This helps me ‘keep the main thing, the main thing,’ since I am so easily distracted.” You may want to do something similar, or you can develop a schedule and method of your own. No matter what you choose to do, go to your thinking place, take paper and pen, and make sure you capture your ideas in writing.”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“experience alone does not add value to a life. It’s not necessarily experience that is valuable; it’s the insight people gain because of their experience. Reflective”
― John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“greatest enemy to tomorrow’s success is sometimes today’s success.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“Paul the Apostle exhorted, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.” 74 Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work