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Very Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
- It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder…
- In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside…
- If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in…
- An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also…
- It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.
- It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of…
- As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem
- Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a…
- ..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with…
- ...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to…
- We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in…
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