Stephen Covey

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

Accountability Growth Improvement

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Communication Relationships Understanding

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

Direction Goals Motivational

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Improvement Investment Patience

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Choice Improvement Motivational

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

Communication Relationships Trust

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Change Choice Life

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Direction Leadership Success

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Creativity Improvement Motivational

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Collaboration Diversity Teamwork

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Economics Society Trust

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Career Education Procrastination

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Awareness Creativity Freedom

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Choice Leadership

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Character Integrity

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Goals Mortality Reflection

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Discipline Leadership

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Empowerment Skill Success

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Growth Improvement Mindfulness