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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
Stephen Covey
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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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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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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.
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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.
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Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?
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The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
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We can act instead of being acted upon.
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When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
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Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way it's a better way, a higher way.
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
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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.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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