Stephen R. Covey

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

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

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

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

There will be times when your best isn’t your good enough. There can be many reasons for this, but as long as you give your best you’ll be OK.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

lf you don’t think everyday is a great day, try going without one.

Don’t underestimate yourself or your possibilities.

You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

If you want to be rich… don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.