In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
SR
Stephen R. CoveyPrinciple-Centered Leadership (1992)
About Stephen R. Covey
American educator and author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. (1932-2012)
More from Stephen R. Covey
- The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), Habit 5
- Begin with the end in mind.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), Habit 2
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- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.Bertrand Russell
- Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.Blaise Pascal
- The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.Søren Kierkegaard
- People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.Steve Jobs
- We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work.Steve Jobs
- Criticize by category, praise by name.Warren Buffett
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