Stephen Covey

Don’t be seduced by your own autobiography.

Stephen Covey

Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

Stephen Covey

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

Stephen Covey

Efficiency with people is ineffective. With people, fast is slow and slow is fast.

Stephen Covey

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

Stephen Covey

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Stephen Covey

Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

Stephen Covey

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Stephen Covey

Habits are patterns of behavior composed of three overlapping components: knowledge, attitude, and skill.

Stephen Covey

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Stephen Covey