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Stephen Covey
American
Businessman
About the author
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Character
#Habits
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Character
#Public
#Behavior
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Relationships
#Quality
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Goals
#Decisions
#Force
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Past
#Power
#Choice
#Animals
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Life
#Change
#Choice
#Principles
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Right
#Success
#Management
#Leadership
#Efficiency
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Imagination
#History
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,
American
Businessman
#People
#Technology
#Information
#Books
#Television
#Fact
#Communication
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
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.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Freedom
#Imagination
#Power
#Self
#Change
#Conscience
#Awareness
#Self awareness
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#First
#Management
#Leadership
#Discipline
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey,
American
Businessman
#Key
#Priorities