Quote

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Ends
Planning
Mind
Determination
Setting
Begin
Prioritize
Goal
Proactive
Success
Tunnels
Business
Optimistic
Inspirational
Objectives

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
The key to motivation is motive.
Stephen Covey
Image
In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
Stephen Covey
Image
It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
Stephen Covey
Image
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Stephen Covey
Image
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
Stephen Covey
Image
It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
Stephen Covey
Image
Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
Stephen Covey
Image
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
Stephen Covey
Image
Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
Stephen Covey
Image
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen Covey
Image
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
Stephen Covey
Image
When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
Stephen Covey
Image
we're responsible for our own lives.
Stephen Covey
Image
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Stephen Covey
Image
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.
Stephen Covey
Image
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.
Stephen Covey
Image
The enemy of the best is often the good.
Stephen Covey
Image
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
Stephen Covey
Image
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.
Stephen Covey
Image
It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
Stephen Covey