Stephen R. Covey

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

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

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

The ability to manage well doesn’t make much difference if you’re not even in the right jungle.

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label – being an outsider is fine, embrace the label – because it’s the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.

The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.

Vision is the art of seeing things that are not yet visible.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

How about dreaming out loud? How about feeling that something can happen to make the world better and inspire people? Is that OK for one second?

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time.

Precision, instinct and tempo are all necessary in order to become extraordinary.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

I don’t know exactly what’s next but I’m stepping forward with grit anchored in grace.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.