Stephen Covey Quotes

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
Begin with the end in mind.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
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