A collection of quotes from American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey.
2. Stephen Covey was an American educator, author,
businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular
book was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People.
Born) 1965
Died) 2012
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“If you can hire people
whose passion intersects
with the job, they won’t
require any supervision at
all. They will manage
themselves better than
anyone could have ever
manage them. Their fire
comes from within, not
from without.”
- Stephen Covey
4. “Most of us spend
too much time on
what is urgent and
not enough time
on what is
important.”
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5. “An empowered
organization is one in
which individuals have the
knowledge, skill, desire,
and opportunity to
personally succeed
in a way that leads to
organizational success.”
- Stephen Covey
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6. “To begin with the end in
mind means to start with a
clear understanding of your
destination. It means to
know where you are going
so that you better
understand where you are
now so that the steps you
take are always in the right
direction.”
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7. “The key is not to
prioritize what’s
on your
schedule, but to
schedule your
priorities.”
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8. “Most people do
not listen with the
intent to
understand; they
listen with the
intent to reply.”
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10. “Management is
doing things right;
leadership is doing
the right things.”
- Stephen Covey
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11. “Involve people in
the problem and
work out the
solution together.”
- Stephen Covey
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12. “Doing the right
things for the right
reason in the right
way is the key to
quality of life!”
- Stephen Covey
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13. “Leadership is
communicating others’
worth and potential so
clearly that they are
inspired to see it in
themselves.”
- Stephen Covey
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14. “If we want to make
small changes, we can
work on changing our
behavior but if we want
to make significant,
quantum changes, we
need to work on our
basic paradigms*.”
- Stephen Covey
*Paradigms - distinct concepts or thought patterns.
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15. “When the trust
account is high,
communication
is easy, instant,
and effective.”
- Stephen Covey
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16. Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits
of Highly Effective People
1) Be Proactive
2) Begin with the End in Mind
3) Put First Things First
4) Think Win/Win
5) Seek First to Understand, Then to
Be Understood
6) Synergize
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17. “I am not a
product of my
circumstances. I
am a product of
my decisions.”
- Stephen Covey
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18. “Strength lies in
differences, not in
similarities.”
- Stephen Covey
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19. “Seek first to
understand, then to
be understood.”
- Stephen Covey
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20. “The key is not to
prioritize what's on
your schedule, but
to schedule your
priorities.”
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21. “People can't live
with change if there's
not a changeless core
inside them.”
- Stephen Covey
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22. “Admission of
ignorance is often
the first step in our
education.”
- Stephen Covey
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23. “Habit is the intersection
of knowledge (what to
do), skill (how to do), and
desire (want to do).”
- Stephen Covey
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24. “You can't talk your
way out of a problem
you behaved your
way into.”
- Stephen Covey
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25. “Our behavior is a
function of our
decisions, not our
conditions.”
- Stephen Covey
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26. “The way we see
the problem is the
problem.”
- Stephen Covey
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27. “To know and not
to do is really not
to know.”
- Stephen Covey
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28. “As long as you
think the problem
is out there, that
very thought is the
problem.”
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29. “Start with the end
in mind.”
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30. “Be a light, not a
judge. Be a model,
not a critic.”
- Stephen Covey
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31. “To retain those
who are present,
be loyal to those
who are absent.”
- Stephen Covey
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32. “We're responsible
for our own lives.”
- Stephen Covey
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33. “You can't change
the fruit without
changing the root.”
- Stephen Covey
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34. “Interdependence
is a choice only
independent
people can make.”
- Stephen Covey
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35. “The undisciplined
are slaves to
moods, appetites
and passions.”
- Stephen Covey
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36. “The way we see
things is the source
of the way we think
or the way we act.”
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37. “People can't live with
change if there's not a
changeless core inside them.
The key to the ability to
change is a changeless sense
of who you are, what you are
about and what you value.”
- Stephen Covey
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38. “If you don't let a
teacher know what level
you are by asking a
question, or revealing
your ignorance you will
not learn or grow.”
- Stephen Covey
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39. “To learn and not to
do is really not to
learn. To know and
not to do is really
not to know.”
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40. “Independent will is our
capacity to act. It gives us the
power to transcend our
paradigms, to swim upstream,
to rewrite our scripts, to act
based on principle rather than
reacting based on emotion or
circumstance.”
- Stephen Covey
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41. “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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42. “If I really want to
improve my situation, I
can work on the one
thing over which I have
control - myself.”
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43. “Sow a thought, reap
an action; sow an
action, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a
character; sow a
character, reap a
destiny.”
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44. “We are free to choose
our actions, . . . but we
are not free to choose
the consequences of
these actions.”
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45. “Trust is the glue of
life. It's the most
essential ingredient in
effective
communication. It's
the foundational
principle that holds all
relationships.”
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46. “There are three constants in life…
change, choice, and principles.”
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47. “Treat a man as he
is and he will remain
as he is. Treat a man
as he can and
should be and he
will become as he
can and should be.”
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48. “Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit,
describes a poll of 23,000 employees drawn
from a number of companies and industries.
He reports the poll's findings:
• 37 percent said they have a clear
understanding of what their organization is
trying to achieve and why
• One in five was enthusiastic about their
team's and their organization's goals
• One in five said they had a clear "line of
sight" between their tasks and their team's
and organization's goals
• 15 percent felt that their organization fully
enables them to execute key goals
• 20 percent fully trusted the organization
they work for.”
- Chip Heath
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