Stephen R. Covey

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

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

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

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Time management is really a misnomer; the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

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.

I read for the ‘ah-ha’s,’ the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man – financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The successful entrepreneur’s unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

Those who lose visualize the penalties of failure. Those who win visualize the rewards of success.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

There is no dream you can’t achieve. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it’s very simple. You can’t put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

Difficulties break some men but make others.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default.

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.