Stephen Covey

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Stephen Covey

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

Stephen Covey

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.

Stephen Covey

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Stephen Covey

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

Stephen Covey

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

Stephen Covey

Rebellion is a knot of the heart, not of the mind.

Stephen Covey

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Stephen Covey

Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

Stephen Covey

Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, and I’ll show you the supreme power of choice.

Stephen Covey