Quote

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

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
Change
Better
Way
Life
Synergy

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
Stephen Covey
Image
Interdependency follows independence.
Stephen Covey
Image
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
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
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.
Stephen Covey
Image
True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
Stephen Covey
Image
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
Stephen Covey
Image
You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
Stephen Covey
Image
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Stephen Covey
Image
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Stephen Covey
Image
Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
Stephen Covey
Image
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.
Stephen Covey
Image
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
Stephen Covey
Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots.
Stephen Covey
Image
We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
Stephen Covey
Image
Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.
Stephen Covey
Image
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
Image
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
Stephen Covey
Image
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey
Image
An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
Stephen Covey