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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
Behavior
Persons
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Performances

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
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Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations
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Private victories precede public victories.
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We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
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Interdependency follows independence.
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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
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I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
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I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
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The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
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