Stephen Covey

In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person’s life.

Stephen Covey

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

Stephen Covey

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our circle of influence to shape much of our lives by default.

Stephen Covey

In the absence of such ‘wake-up calls’, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

Stephen Covey

In the long run, if it isn’t a win for both of us, we both lose.

Stephen Covey

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

Stephen Covey

Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities.

Stephen Covey

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won’t be good leaders or team players.

Stephen Covey

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Stephen Covey

Internal victories precede external victories.

Stephen Covey