Stephen Covey

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

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

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

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.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples_ production.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

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

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.