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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
Within
Freedom
Comes
Empowerment

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We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
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An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
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To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
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Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
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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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Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
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I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
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Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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Your economic security does not lie in your job it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth it's having the power to produce wealth.
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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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