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
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.
At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
Treat them all the same by treating them differently.
But borrowing strength builds weakness.
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Leadership is a choice, not a position
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.