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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
Credibility
Inspiring
Leadership
Results
Matter

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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
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The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences violating them brings negative consequences.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
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When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.
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Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values therefore, value principles!
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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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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
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The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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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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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul. (David O. McKay).
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.
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