Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied
on for centuries common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and
perseverance.
John C. Bogle
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MATHER The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft... JOHN C. STENNIS Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only r... JOHN C. MAXWELL The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. JOHN C. CALHOUN Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures e... JOHN C. CALHOUN Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and ... JOHN C. MAXWELL I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one... JOHN C. CALHOUN Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure. JOHN C. MAXWELL The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes... JOHN C. 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MAXWELL Leadership is influence. JOHN C. MAXWELL A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. JOHN C. MAXWELL People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. JOHN C. MAXWELL Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. JOHN C. MAXWELL A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk. JOHN C. MAXWELL Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something nobl... JOHN C. MAXWELL The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Governmen... JOHN C. CALHOUN The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. JOHN C. MAXWELL The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by disc... JOHN C. MAXWELL In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand. JOHN C. MAXWELL Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. 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MAXWELL By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on maj... JOHN C. CALHOUN We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others,... JOHN C. CALHOUN There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is t... JOHN C. CALHOUN I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the ... JOHN C. MATHER I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their ... JOHN C. MCGINLEY The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by ... JOHN C. CALHOUN Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless o... JOHN C. MAXWELL Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. JOHN C. CALHOUN I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-mod... JOHN C. REILLY A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough ... JOHN C. MAXWELL England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extens... JOHN C. CALHOUN To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one anot... JOHN C. MAXWELL Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah C... JOHN C. MAXWELL The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the n... JOHN C. CALHOUN What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that th... JOHN C. MCGINLEY What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to repleni... JOHN C. CALHOUN Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patron... JOHN C. CALHOUN Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-... JOHN C. MAXWELL For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each Decemb... JOHN C. MAXWELL I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My fat... JOHN C. REILLY To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get togethe... JOHN C. PARKIN Yesterday ended last night. JOHN C. MAXWELL Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. JOHN C. MAXWELL To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This... JOHN C. MAXWELL I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect... JOHN C. 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MAXWELL The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vagu... JOHN C. CROSBY I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive.... JOHN C. CALHOUN What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i... JOHN C. CALHOUN Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ... JOHN C. REILLY In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve ... JOHN C. CALHOUN I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ... JOHN C. CALHOUN As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I als... JOHN C. MATHER The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's m... JOHN C. REILLY There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and popula... JOHN C. CALHOUN The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, po... JOHN C. CALHOUN A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indee... JOHN C. CALHOUN A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on ... JOHN C. MCGINLEY Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves. JOHN C. MAXWELL Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way ... JOHN C. MAXWELL Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. JOHN C. MAXWELL A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like. JOHN C. MATHER Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ... JOHN C. CALHOUN Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our cap... JOHN C. CALHOUN Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to ... JOHN C. CALHOUN It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrow... JOHN C. CALHOUN Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best. JOHN C. MAXWELL War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary;... JOHN C. CALHOUN The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards... JOHN C. STENNIS Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable. JOHN C. MAXWELL Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking proces... JOHN C. MAXWELL I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my l... JOHN C. MAXWELL Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough. JOHN C. MATHER I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prospe... JOHN C. CALHOUN I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changin... JOHN C. REILLY Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and mov... JOHN C. MAXWELL And look what it gets President Bush: It just gets him a kick in the rear, ... That's what they've d... JOHN C. DANFORTH The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a... JOHN C. MCGINLEY What is consciousness?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he replied, after a little hesitation. “N... JOHN C. LENNOX A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and va... JOHN C. CALHOUN Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as t... JOHN C. MAXWELL Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great... JOHN C. CALHOUN People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must gi... JOHN C. MAXWELL Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind ... JOHN C. LENNOX Easytrak is no guarantee against mismanagement. But you cannot manage a large program without softwa... JOHN C. MATHER It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success. JOHN C. MAXWELL As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari. JOHN C. HAWKES In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. JOHN C. HAWKES