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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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Unfortunately, too many executives believe the myths about trust. Myths like how trust is soft and is merely a social virtue. The reality is that trust is hard-edged and is an economic driver.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.
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What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?
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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
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In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
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Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.
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Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
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Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.
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Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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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.
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The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves
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