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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

Stephen Covey

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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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In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
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Private victories precede public victories.
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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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It comes from within.
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We can never really change someone people must change themselves.
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It's not enough to have values without vision you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.
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If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.
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It's not that we ignore our weaknesses rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.
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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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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Do what is important, not what is urgent.
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
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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.
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The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. The 8th Habit is to Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.
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