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Is John Maxwell who said leadership is influence nothing more nothing less your ability to influence people within the sphere of your periphery

It's not about making a nice impression. It's about making an impact. It's about doing your best

I learned how to make an impact from the wisest person I ever met in my life a

Third-grade dropouts that third-grade dropout the wisest person I ever met in my life who taught me to combine knowledge and

Wisdom to make an impact was my father my father taught himself how to read taught himself how to write

Decided in the midst of Jim Crow is him as America was breeding the last gas for the Civil War

My father decided he was gonna stand and be a man not a black man not a brown man not a white man

But a man saying this boys. I won't have a problem if you aim high and miss

But I'm gonna have a real issue if you aim low and hit quoting Henry Ford saying if you think you can or if you think you can't

You're right lessons like these son don't judge people the tendency of a person is to walk away from somebody that's different from them

You stay there and you get to know them vision is the ability to see the indiscible don't judge

Son you'd rather be an hour early than a minute late we never knew what time it was at my house because the clocks were always ahead

30 years my father left the house at 3.45 in the morning why daddy he said maybe one of my boys will catch me in the act of excellence

Aristotle said you are what you repeatedly do therefore excellence ought to be a habit

Not an act. You're gonna do a job do it right do it the right way be kind to people

He always told us kind deeds are never lost ego is the anesthesia that dens the pain of stupidity pride is the burden of a foolish person

You'll never be a great executive you'll never be a great team mate. It's all about you

You'll never be a great staff member. It's all about you make sure that servants cow is always big

At 12 years ago when Aussie Smith walked into the Hall of Fame

He said I've always been told how average I can be always been criticized about being average

But I want to tell you something I stand here before you before all of these people not listening to those words

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