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
Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.
When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
It's better to be trusted than to be liked.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.