Stephen Covey

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

Stephen Covey

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.

Stephen Covey

Trust is a competency. It’s something you can get good at. It’s a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.

Stephen Covey

Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Stephen Covey

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It’s not logical; it’s psychological.

Stephen Covey

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

Stephen Covey

Unless you’re influenced by my uniqueness, I’m not going to be influenced by your advice.

Stephen Covey

Until we see ourselves from the outside objectively, we will automatically project our motives onto other people.

Stephen Covey