Stephen Covey

If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

Stephen Covey

If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won’t require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.

Stephen Covey

If you don’t let a teacher know at what level you are – by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance – you will not learn or grow.

Stephen Covey

If you don’t make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

Stephen Covey

If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.

Stephen Covey

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Stephen Covey

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek.

Stephen Covey

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent.

Stephen Covey

If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

Stephen Covey

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.

Stephen Covey