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
People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
It's better to be trusted than to be liked.
We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions