Words matter. These are the best Stephen Covey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‘You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.’
A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
Trust is central to an economy that works.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
Mind over mattress.
You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Studies have identified a significant ‘skills gap’ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.
The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.
What is common sense isn’t common practice.
If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Every time you think the problem is ‘out there,’ that very thought is the problem.
Begin with the end in mind.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, ‘What can I do? I’m basically a victim.’
Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
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.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
Most negotiators are trying to get their way.
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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.
