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By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

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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Motivational
Trust
Ways
Many
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Behaving
Integrity

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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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Values determine behavior Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
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Effective people are not problem-minded they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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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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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.
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When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
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