Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Coveywas an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth24 October 1932
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.