Stephen R. Covey

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

Accountability breeds responsibility.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole–the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives — you’ll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

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

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Seek not outside yourself for success lies within.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

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

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

That if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be-on winning.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

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

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

I’d be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.