Stephen Covey Quotes

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

Stephen Covey

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.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

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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.

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Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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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.

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

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.

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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Leadership is a choice, not a position.

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

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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.

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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

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When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Stephen Covey