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Stephen Covey Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Responsibility: Stephen Covey Quotes
Accountability breeds response-ability.

Teamwork: Stephen Covey Quotes
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Determination: Stephen Covey Quotes
Begin with the end in mind.

Leadership: Stephen Covey Quotes
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Sales: Stephen Covey Quotes
If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Imagination: Stephen Covey Quotes
Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Business: Stephen Covey Quotes
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Overcoming Failure: Stephen Covey Quotes
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance.

Motivation: Stephen Covey Quotes
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Character: Stephen Covey Quotes
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Freedom: Stephen Covey Quotes
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Friendship: Stephen Covey Quotes
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Success: Stephen Covey Quotes
The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Action: Stephen Covey Quotes
The best way you can predict your future is to create it.

Thought: Stephen Covey Quotes
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Life: Stephen Covey Quotes
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

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