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If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

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
Diagnosis
Confidence
Life
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.
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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.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
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