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Stephen Covey Quotes: 8

  • If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

  • An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

  • Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

  • When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

  • Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  • If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

  • You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  • There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.