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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Work
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Improve
Control
Situation

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In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
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Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.
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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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Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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Life is a mission, not a career.
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply.
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