613 Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

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!

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses.

The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.