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Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way it's a better way, a higher way.

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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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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