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You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Loyalty
Heart
Enthusiasm
Economics
Management
Business

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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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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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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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Don't prioritize your schedule, schedule those priorities.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
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Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.
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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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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
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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.
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True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
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