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Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

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

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I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

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Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

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

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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

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

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

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