Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Coveywas an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth24 October 1932
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
Stephen Covey quotes about
Difference is the beginning of synergy.
Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.
It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.
Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
Patience is emotional diligence.
If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.
If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.