Stephen Covey

Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought and helps break the whole into parts.

Stephen Covey

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do.

Stephen Covey

Live, love, learn, leave a legacy.

Stephen Covey

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on these goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you’d treat an appointment with anybody else.

Stephen Covey

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration.

Stephen Covey

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Stephen Covey

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Stephen Covey

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

Stephen Covey