Top 102 Quotes by Stephen Covey

About Stephen Covey

These are some quotes by American author Stephen Covey Businessman, who lived between October 24, 1932 and July 16, 2012.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Stephen Covey

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.

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.

Stephen Covey

What is common sense isn't common practice.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

Stephen Covey

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

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

Stephen Covey

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.

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.

Stephen Covey

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

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

Stephen Covey

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

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

Stephen Covey

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.

Stephen Covey

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Stephen Covey

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Stephen Covey

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